Colette Georgii is the Science Channel Steward at Helium after taking on the role of subchannel steward for Ecology/Environment and Water/Oceanograpy for about six months.

Although Colette's main focus in the Science Channel is the Social Sciences, she takes a keen interest in all the sciences and is good at editing out articles that are off topic. She is also an excellent organizer and creator of new titles.

She is currently looking for new subchannel stewards for the many different channels within the Science Channel. If you see a channel you would like to steward, please contact Colette.

As a writer, Colette has written articles in all Helium channels giving lifetime insights and unique comments on many diverse issues.

Her goal as a writer is to continue freelance writing as a lifetime career and to finish her works in progress - a screenplay and a novel. Colette began her writing career back in high school where she was a reporter for the high school newspaper. In her first year of college she was the copy editor for the college newspaper and also wrote articles for the front page, doing interviews, and reporting on college activities.

Colette has written many business materials such as press releases, entertainment programs, and resumes.

She also writes and develops business plans, organizational assessments, organizational charts, strategic plans, and project plans.

Although her specialization is writing, she is also an excellent cook, a talented artist, a gifted seamstress/coutouriere, a Silver Level Professional Ballroom Dancer, and an avid book collector.

She is also interested in history, genealogy, politics, environmental issues and wildlife, flowers and gardening, farming, music and entertainment, and educational research.

Colette Georgii has traveled throughout much of the United States. As a child there were yearly visits to the grandparents in the New England states. As an adult she visited the Southern states, the Western and Midwestern states, and again the New England states while attending Graduate School in New Hampshire. She chose the graduate school in New Hampshire, because New Hampshire is where her grandfather and grandmother were born.

Colette grew up in an interesting cultural environment which probably contributes to the huge repetoire of experiences she holds in her background knowledge. Her father was in show business. He was a ventriloquist, singer, tap dancer, ballroom dancer, and magician. Her mother was a concert pianist who sometimes performed on stage with her father. Her mother was also a top managerial office worker at three different top businesses within her community.

Before the age of five Colette witnessed her father's many small businesses: an indoor miniature golf course, pool room, barber shop, auction house, golf driving range, produce stand, and drive-in movie theater. She loved picking up the golf balls on the driving range. When she was five, the family moved to a new location further out in the country. This was a 26 acre farm. He again started up an auction house, barber shop, pool room, and drive-in theater at this location, along with managing the farm.

The farm was a wonderful place with a spring, creek, and many fruit trees. They grew tomatoes, potatoes, and the best sweet corn anyone can imagine. Colette spent many days in the fields as a child picking the harvest. The very large tomatoes never got in the basket, because she sat down in the field and ate them. They also grew a one acre truck patch of many different garden vegetables. There was a red raspberry patch and wild black raspberries. Strawberries were a specialty and they grew many different varieties of strawberries.

Farming was all natural. No pesticides or sprays were ever used. Fruit trees were allowed to yield naturally. Much of the fruit was canned for the winter. The animals on the farm were goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits, and pigeons.

Colette's education became her educational role model project while raising her four children who are now ages 26, 41, 43, and 45. (Three grandchildren - one is in his third year of college). She went back to college when her older children were teenagers and she again went back when her youngest child was a teenager.

She received her MBA in 2002 and also holds an MS in Community Economic Development (1998) and a BS in Education with a concentration in Social Science and a Secondary Teaching Certificate in Social Studies.

Her work experiences include sales (direct sales, retail sales, and telemarketing), teaching, director of an Arts Center, manager and president of a Natural Foods Co-op; and self-employment as a resume writer, telemarketer (mostly construction sales), and dressmaker. She currently does volunteer work at a local non-profit organization.

Colette offers keen insight into today's many cultural, societal, and political issues and her words are truly ingenious offerings for today's global world.

My passion is ...

Life and everything that comes with it including reading, writing, and thinking.

I know too much about ...

Everything and not enough about anything

My parents always told me ...

To stop talking

My childhood ambition ...

At age six I wanted to be a teacher. At age 15 I wanted to be a teacher or writer.

My favorite memory ...

Too many favorite memories, but I guess the best would be the yearly trips to my grandmother in Massachusetts when I was a child.

Why I write ...

I write to give the best of me to the world and to young people who are just beginning.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

My favorite reading is Philip Roth. For music I like progressive jazz - Miles Davis Sketches of Spain is my favorite. I like the Godfather and movies by Pedro Almodovar and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. My favorite singers are Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Billy Holiday, Nina Simone, and Joan Baez.

My first job ...

Waitress when I was fourteen after school

My best moment ...

The birth of spring flowers and the birth of my children. Also, being at my MBA graduation ceremony and receiving my degree.

My inspiration ...

Books by famous authors or about famous people.

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Positive student-teacher relationships are important for the student, the parent, and the teacher. Both parents and teachers should work together to achieve positive student-teacher relationships. With positive student-teacher relationships, the teacher feels good about her teaching ability, the student feels confident, and the parent feels comfortable when her children are at school. Parents can be invaluable in helping to achieve positive student-teacher relationships: 1) Parents should teach their children respect. Therefore children will respect their teachers which will help to foster...

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