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	Name: Janet Gray-McKennis Occupation: Teacher, Ancona School Email Address: jmckennis@cuip.net
Favorite Quote
"Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing...compared to love in dreams." -Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov "A weasel doesn't attack anything; a weasel lives as he's meant to, yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity." -Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk
About Me
I really enjoy my work, particularly the fact that I'm always learning. I can't imagine anything more important than spending time with children as they discover and become their best selves. Some current obsessions include: Poetry: Sharon Olds & Seamus Heaney Non-Fiction: Sue Hubbell, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Anthony DeMello Fiction: The Windup Bird Chronicles Hobbies: Hiking and Camping Music: Beck, Mozart's quartets, Caetano Veloso, Coldplay, Beth Orton, Billy Bragg, Paula Cole, Wilco, Radiohead, Dylan, the Dead, Cassandra Wilson, Patricia Barber, Sleator-Kinney Source of Inspiration/Exhaustion: My three terrific children
Links
Political The Progressive Community Chicago Independent Media Catholic Worker Movement Personal Janet's Classroom Page Education Best WebQuests Discovering American Memory National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Virtual Cave Reader's Theater