(Photo of Dee by Greg Windle)

When Denise Dee Haines (Dee) was designing her dream classroom, she looked for a convenient location. Nothing was quite right, until she and her husband Bob Pollack realized that everything she had always wanted in a classroom was right there at home.

In Empress of Everything: Messages from a Master Teacher, Dee mentions some of the features that helped her decide to place the school at home: “I had a washer and dryer for winter; I had places for them to hang up their coats and places for them to eat. We could do cooking projects and hammering projects…”