Mr. Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles 123 by Terance Shipman

Shipman presents a positive and strong image that children need. Acknowledging the under-representation of men in education, Mr. Each book in the series celebrates the male teacher. Shipman’s Kindergarten Chronicles are the stories of teaching kindergarten that make me smile the most when I think about my years teaching kindergarten. I’m a husband to the beautiful Prudence Shipman, father of five wonderful children, one daughter and four sons. Since completing my final degree, has worked with middle school and high school aged students. Most of his time at APS was spent as a kindergarten teacher, and in 2009 I earned his Educational Specialist degree from University of West Georgia in Administration Supervision and soon after I complete my doctoral degree at Clark Atlanta University in 2013.

For the next 13 years, I was an elementary teacher in Atlanta Public School System. After obtaining this degree, I attended Hampton University in Virginia and obtain a Master’s degree in Elementary Education in 1994. I received my Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from the Tuskegee University in 1992. In fact, he spent his first 11 years teaching kindergarten. He spent much of his teaching career working with elementary-aged students. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. They have gotten better, but the bulk of my sells still come from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I have advertise heavily to increase website sales. I ship all books within a two day window. I would have never thought this would be this hard. The other unexpected problem is getting people to buy books from my website. This does help with getting reviews for books. I have book giveaways a few times a year. Can you just leave one sentence, okay three words.

It can be friends, family members or strangers, asking them to leave a review and them doing is amazingly hard.

One of the hardest things has been just getting people to leave one. Reviews for an author are very important. The most unexpected problems I’ve faced in this book publishing journey has been getting people to leave reviews and simply buy books from the website. Have you had such and experience and if so, can you tell us the story of one of those unexpected problems you’ve encountered? One of the toughest things about progressing in your creative career is that there are almost always unexpected problems that come up – problems that you often can’t read about in advance, can’t prepare for, etc. Terance, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We recently connected with Terance Shipman and have shared our conversation below.

Mr. Shipman's Kindergarten Chronicles 123 by Terance Shipman