Jacqueline is especially committed to bringing ethical thinking into the classroom, and focuses her writing for teachers (Scholastic Professional Books) around creative methods and themes that might accomplish this. Her teaching methods reinforce specific writing skills: simile, metaphor, strong verbs, power adjectives, alliteration, onomatopoeia, structure---which she filters through such themes as color, synesthesia (sense mixing), feelings, animals and their habitats, weather, nature, outer space, character building, literary characters and themes (and many, many more which she often tailors to a teacher's curriculum needs). For this reason, her workshops are also in great demand to help prepare students for the state writing tests. Her workshops also more than meet the new Boces (AIE) requirements to contain writing, performance, art components, etc.
AWARDS
Purdue University's Baine-Swigget Award for Graduate Poetry
2005 Dutchess County Executive Arts Award in the Arts-in Education category
"in recognition of scope, quality and success of the school's K-4
