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09 2006 by Robert Sylwester I was rummaging through old files recently, and I ran across the manuscript of my first published article, "Only 179 Days to Go". It appeared in the September 1961 back-to-school issue of The Instructor Magazine, a major journal for elementary educators. I recall being very thrilled at the publication - and at the $7 they sent me for writing it. What's amazing is that a couple months later I received a letter out of the blue from an editor at Prentice Hall Publishing Company. He wrote that he had seen my article, liked it, and wondered if I had ever thought of writing a book. His letter blew my mind. I had hit the jackpot with my first published article. The eventual result was Common Sense in Classroom Relationships (1966, Parker/Prentice-Hall). And here I am 45 years later with 20 published books and curricular programs; and hundreds of articles, columns, and book reviews. I thus thought you might be interested in what I had to say at the very beginning of my writing career - and you'll note that it describes a more relaxed time in school, not buffeted by standards and assessments. To provide context, I taught in elementary schools for ten years before becoming a college professor in 1959, and the first four of these years were spent in a one room rural school with 36 students in eight grades. I also drove the school bus and served as the custodian. I paid my dues.
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