Gaetan Pappalardo grew up on KISS, street hockey, and Transformers. He teaches third grade in West Deptford, N.J. and is a fellow of the Pennsylvania Writing and Literature Project. Gaetan provides professional development for teachers on how to inspire young writers to find their own voice and is a site coordinator/teacher for Young Readers/Young Writers: a summer youth enrichment camp presented by West Chester University in Pennsylvania.
He’s been playing guitar for eighteen years and seamlessly incorporates music into the curriculum on a daily basis. He has written and recorded many full-length records with his students.
His first children's book, Louie Licks and the Wicked Snakes:Battleaxe, will be released summer/fall 2011. Join the buzz here: http://www.facebook.com/LouieLicksandtheWickedSnakes?ref=ts
Blog Posts
Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES
Then listen close to me--
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.
~~Shel Silverstein
Read More.The smell of permanent marker is in the air; books are piled neatly on each desk; brand new posters and charts hang peacefully on the walls; pencils are sharpened to needle-like perfection. And in the distance, new sneakers beat the pavement with anxiety and excitement about the first day of...
Read More.Tap, tap, tap---tap, tap--tap. I'm sending a signal from down here in the muck, down here where the boogers are hard and the shoelaces are eternally untied. HELLO up there? In the 80's words of Def Leopard, "Is anybody out there? Is anybody there?" Call me crazy, but how come I don't see or...
Read More.We found the groove. Make sure your seatbelts are fastened and have a good time.
-- From the song "20th Century," by the band Brad
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