About Jane
Jane Baskwill was born in Queens, New York, but has lived most of her adult life in rural Nova Scotia. There she has watched foxes steal pears from beneath the trees in her back yard, listened to red-tailed hawks argue over a recently caught meal, smelled the arrival of a family of skunks, and tasted the wild blackberries that grow in the fields and by the roadside.
Jane appreciates and respects the beauty of nature in all its forms and all its moments. She is a strong advocate for equity and social justice and works to further Peace Education in schools. She shares this with her husband and four children, and with others through her teaching, writing and poetry.
She has authored many professional books and articles for teachers in addition to an award-winning video series. She has also authored a book of poetry for children: Pass the Poems Please, WildThings Press and three picture books: Somewhere (1996), Touch the Earth (1999), and If Peace Is…(2003), (Mondo Publishing, New York).
Jane has been President of the Nova Scotia Reading Association and Nova Scotia’s Provincial Coordinator for the International Reading Association. She is currently a member of CELT, The Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking. She has been a Featured Speaker and workshop leader at numerous educational conferences. She is a former teacher and principal and is currently on the Education Faculty at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax.
Jane is a six-time recipient of the Education Quality Award from the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union and received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Educational Press association of America for her series of articles in Teaching K-8 Magazine.
She currently lives with her husband, Steve, in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia.
Jane Baskwill was born in Queens, New York, but has lived most of her adult life in rural Nova Scotia. There she has watched foxes steal pears from beneath the trees in her back yard, listened to red-tailed hawks argue over a recently caught meal, smelled the arrival of a family of skunks, and tasted the wild blackberries that grow in the fields and by the roadside.
Jane appreciates and respects...
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