Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. My visit to Hannah's class was life-changing. I had met most of her classmates through attendance at other school activities.They know me as "Hannah's Dad". Today, I reintroduced myself as a #StandupStoryteller ... and host of the #SeeSayShow. I brought my best "bag of tricks" that I organized into this setlist. I performed the songs "Move" and "Joy" from the setlist. Afterwards, a student (Elia) asked me to show how them to make words rhyme ...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. March 21 was a good day. I took the day off to dream. See, I have a dream. One day, I will use #StandupStorytelling and #The SeeSayShow to provide in-school field trip experiences to students. These experiences will be small-group fellowships delivered as concerts, gameshows, and tournaments. I visited Hannah's school (Dunleith Elementary) to participate in Career Day. I visited Hannah's 4th-grade dual-language immersion class first. I spoke of dual-language immersion's virtues earlier (while discussing the Reading Bowl) ... but they are worth repeating. Imagine learning your core academic subjects in another language ... and doing that every day for multiple school years ... that's going to build powerful language skills ... (then) those language skills build analysis skills ... self-expression skills ... numeracy skills ... and in multiple languages. I also admitted earlier that dual-language immersion provides Hannah a "safe-haven" similar to those at our high school ...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. I made a key move this year. I was able to create a STEM partnership with a young aerospace engineer from GTRI ... who was from Marietta ... and had graduated from Georgia Tech. This partnership allowed me to host Saturday morning fellowships in my classroom. Our agenda for our Spring fellowship included a project with a required homework assignment ...