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Asking directions

30 Oct 2015

Laryngitis

  How do you teach an ESL class when you have no voice? It’s easy.    Sort of   [The “bonus” scenes from At Home on the Kazakh Steppe continue with this one from my first semester.]     They put … Read More

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LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era

“Janet’s LEAPFROG describes— in an accessible and fun way— the nuts and bolts of how to have a civil conversation…”

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At Home on the Kazakh Steppe:A Peace Corps Memoir

Praise from Kirkus Review

“…she writes engagingly … a sharp-eyed journalist. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in humanitarian work.”

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe, A Peace Corps Memoir, by Janet Givens
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