Aretha Dodson is an educator. She has spent more than forty-two years educating students and leading teachers as an elementary school principal and as an educational consultant. Ar...view moreAretha Dodson is an educator. She has spent more than forty-two years educating students and leading teachers as an elementary school principal and as an educational consultant. Aretha wants children to know that ideas are important and that shying away from one’s own thinking can be handicapped by doubting the experience of writing. She writes not as an experienced writer, but with a desire to share a time in history with children and her peers. Writing is what she is modeling and encouraging students to do.view less