Becca Hall (Director and Core Class/Young Writers Workshop Teacher)
Becca was homeschooled for seven years, including all of high school. When she was eighteen, she attended Stanford University, where she graduated with Interdisciplinary Honors in English. She received her Masters in Environmental Writing from the University of Montana. She writes poetry, essays, and fiction. She lives in Seattle with her daughter and beloved dog Squinchy (who often helps out in the classroom).
Through Frog Hollow, Becca draws on her own passion for writing as well as over twenty years teaching in a wide range of educational settings. Before founding Frog Hollow in 2011, she taught poetry in elementary school classrooms, tutored high school English, taught preschool at Stanford’s renowned Bing Preschool, led environmental education projects, assisted on college field studies courses at the Sierra Institute, and taught college composition at the University of Montana. From 2000 – 2012 she also ran Summer Winds Day Camp, an arts and nature camp in Snoqualmie. At Summer Winds, she created a camp curriculum that combined arts, music, nature studies, games, storytelling, farming education, and history. Becca loves working with writing students of all levels and learning styles to spark their excitement for writing and belief in their own voices.
Michelle Mickle (Thursday Core Class Teacher)
Michelle has taught in a variety of places for over 20 years including Shaw Island, Japan and Snoqualmie. 10 of these years were as a certified teacher. She has attempted to retire from teaching but she just can’t stay away. As a former reluctant writer she knew there was a better way to instruct and explore so writing becomes a more, joyous, freeing process while also developing the capacity to hone the published product. Michelle loves to teach, but finds she is just as much a learner-kids are amazing life instructors. She loves to paint and draw spontaneously, and likes to find ways to sneak them into the curriculum as the students write. Michelle has a cat, several chickens. She also adds guinea pigs, bunnies and kittens in the summer when she runs a small art/baking/nature camp called Art in the Alders.
Caleb Thompson (Core Class Assistant Teacher)
Caleb Thompson is a longtime PNW teaching artist. He is an academically trained poet, which is a weird thing, and has the MFA from Bennington College to prove it. He’s worked as an educator with organizations including Arts Corps, SAM, and the YMCA, and also teaches private music lessons for students of all ages. He plays in a bunch of bands, some of which are Von Wildenhaus, Afterlife Giftshop, and Disney Gillespie.
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