by Scott Dreyer | Jun 24, 2015 | Learning Resources
Fear of Public Speaking (This came in an email from Brian Flanagan, a man I had the pleasure of meeting when Zig Ziglar and his team came to the Roanoke Valley a few years ago.) According to that great medical journal, The Readers Digest!, speaking in front of a group...
by Scott Dreyer | May 29, 2015 | Learning Resources
This morning I was having class with Queenie, a middle school-aged girl in Shenzhen, South China. We were working on some Q&A about a reading passage, and as I usually do, I asked “Do you have any questions?” (Cultural note: many Chinese students, for...
by Scott Dreyer | May 19, 2015 | Learning Resources
Over the summer the students in our Writing Boot Camp worked on their writing skills and read a novel based on a true story set in Southwest Virginia. The book is the life story of Reverend Bob Childress, a preacher who went in to teach Christianity in what was then...
by Scott Dreyer | Apr 23, 2015 | Learning Resources
Ok, so I am facing a “milestone birthday” in a couple of days…for which I’m thankful! The way to have a long life? Keep having birthdays! But still, maybe “age” has been on my mind more the past few days. So, let me set the scene: I...
