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Nan C. Avery has been a teacher for over 20 years. She has experience working with at-risk students and mainstreaming children with special needs into a regular classroom.

Avery attended workshops and presented programs for fellow teachers on classroom techniques. She also wrote articles for colleagues on the newest breakthroughs in education. For example, one of her articles explained how to use Madeline Hunter's lesson plan strategies to reach all children in the classroom.

Nan loves learning about different subjects. Helium has been a great platform for her to learn about different topics and improve her writing skills.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

learning and writing

I know too much about ...

how children are affected by adults and parents.

My parents always told me ...

I love you.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a jockey.

My favorite memory ...

the birth of my children.

Why I write ...

I have always written. The words on a page are exciting with what they can express.

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

too many things to list.

My first job ...

secretary in a lumberyard.

My best moment ...

The first day of teaching and seeing the expectation in the kids' eyes.

My inspiration ...

My family.

Featured article by Nan C Avery

Creative Writing > Flash Fiction Flash fiction: Historical drama: 9 of 18

It came. The telegram from the military. 43 Govt Washington DC 1026AM 11/13/44 Mrs. Angela Rooney Rt 4 McInery, La. The secretary of war desires me to express his deepest regret that your husband Private Robert Rooney has been reported missing in action since twenty nine October in Holland. If further details or other information are received you will be promptly notified. Dunlop Acting the Adjunct General. Tears rolled down Mama's face while reading the telegram. She handed the telegram to me. “He's not dead, Mama,” I said, more to reassure me than her. Mama gathere...
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