Ann Casey:  

Ann is from Helena, Arkansas. Ann's schools include Desoto High School. Ann later attended University of Dallas (Education) , Texas Woman's University (Marriage and Family Therapy) . Music Ann likes includes Annie Tadvick Music, Booker T & The MGs, The Raconteurs. Books Ann likes include Roasting a Simple Art, Barbara Kafka, Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. One of Ann's favorite quotes is:"From the play, Quilters: You can't always change things. Sometimes you don't have no control over the way things go. Hail ruins the crop or the fire burns you out. And then you're just given so much to work with in a life, and you have to do the best you can with what you got. The materials is passed on to you or is all you can afford to buy...that's just what's given to you. Your fate. But the way you put them together is your business. You can put them in any order you like. Piecing is orderly. From Barbara Kingsolver's Small Wonder: Scientists have been trying gently to remind us that the "fossil" in fossil fuel is not a metaphor or simile. That oil is going to dry up eventually, and no political voodoo can induce dinosaurs or prehistoric fern forests to lie down and press themselves into more ooze for us on the timetable we require. I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanize...Expand for more