Tracy S Peterson

TRACY PETERSON is a veteran teacher who has touched hundreds of lives in her 35-year teaching career. She is author of CARTWHEELS: Finding Your Special Kind of Smart (opens conversations about learning differences and explains the basics of dyslexia) and BEANIES, BALL CAPS, AND BEING BALD: Different Isn’t Bad, Different Is Just Different (opens conversations about physical differences and explains the basics of alopecia).

Find more and access free classroom activities on her site at teachertracypeterson.com.

An enthusiastic motivator who finds the good in all, Tracy’s classroom rules are “be kind” and “do your best.” Tracy has taught in four states (California, Kansas, Nebraska, and Arkansas), in special education, preschool, high school, college, fifth grade, second grade, and first grade. She is in her 10th year of teaching first grade in Little Rock and was named “Teacher of the Year” for the Little Rock School District.

Tracy is working on more books in her “From Their Eyes” series, which feature challenges children face in their own words.