Dana Miller Kitch, from Canada, replaced me at the American Embassy School in India this year (2017-2018) and it was very good to know that a CI teacher was going to be there for those wonderful middle schoolers. (Tina and I worked with Dana in training her on the Invisibles before she went to India this past summer, in Philadelphia, and as it turned out, Dana was able to learn about the Invisibles at that workshop but also from the very kids who invented them!)
Dana inherited from me a student named Egor from Russia. Egor was my Reader Leader. Following up on former students is a rare thing, but thanks to Dana I am able to do it with Egor.
Below are two self-reflection pieces recently written by Egor, now an 8th grader there in New Delhi. The first is what he thinks about himself as a reader. The second is his self-assessment on the new Interpersonal Skills Rubric (the one that replaced jGR that we used to use here for so many years now). Both new rubrics are from Tina and can be found as appendices in A Natural Approach to Stories:
(Tina and Dana would get up to get coffee before the Philadelphia workshops at 6:00 a.m. like it was nothing. We were staying with Dick Detweiler and Dick and I were amazed at such energy! It was like Tina and Dana were old friends from long ago. Maybe they are!)