On this inspiring episode of The Schoolyard Podcast, host Nancy Chung spoke with Shannon Olsen, a beloved kids’s e book writer and former second-grade instructor. Shannon shared her journey from educating to turning into a full-time writer, highlighting her ardour for creating academic assets and kids’s books that foster a way of household and collaboration within the classroom.
Shannon mentioned her standard books, together with her best-selling Our Class is a Household and her newest, Collaboration Station, which she wrote through the difficult instances of distance studying. These books reinforce the significance of neighborhood and teamwork amongst college students whereas transitioning again to in-person studying.
You’ll hear insights from Shannon on how her private experiences and challenges as a instructor impressed her books. She shares touching tales about how her position as an writer has positively impacted her personal kids and college students throughout the nation.
For aspiring authors, Shannon additionally presents sensible recommendation on methods to get began with writing and publishing their very own books.
Tag, You’re It!
The episode wrapped up with our common phase known as “Tag Your It,” the place Shannon and Nancy selected the e book characters they’d prefer to be for a day. Hear in to listen to their solutions!
For extra academic assets and to study Shannon’s writer visits and publishing consultations, go to her web site at www.lifebetweensummers.com.
To buy her best-selling books, go to her web site at https://lifebetweensummers.com/store/.
To view her TPT web page, go to https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Retailer/Life-Between-Summers.
Be part of us subsequent time on The Schoolyard Podcast, the place we proceed to discover the magic of studying and the impactful tales of educators.
Shannon Olsen
Shannon Olsen creates assets for elementary faculty academics, together with image books. She is the writer of #1 best-selling books, together with Our Class is a Household and each books within the sequence A Letter From Your Trainer. The themes are centered on constructing class neighborhood and optimistic relationships within the classroom.
A number of of her books have reached the Amazon Prime 20 Charts for all books bought. Her first e book, Our Class is a Household, earned the #1 spot on Writer’s Weekly for Prime Youngsters’s Image Books. In August 2020, Amazon chosen the e book cowl to be featured on their 83-foot billboard in entrance of Penn Station in New York Metropolis.
Previous to turning into an writer, Shannon earned her BA in English and MA in Educating from the College of California Irvine. With fifteen years of classroom expertise as a second-grade instructor, she creates and sells downloadable assets for elementary academics by way of Life Between Summers LLC. Her academic assets can be found by way of the Lecturers Pay Lecturers web site and her on-line store at lifebetweensummers.com.
