PATIENCE FILIPPO
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Welcome to the Official Patience Filippo Author & Artist Site
Supporting a New Conversation: "Empowering Happiness Through Literacy" — Together with YOU!
Meet Patience Filippo, a first-time children’s book author but a long-time artist, educator, and writer. Her debut work, My Teacher Is NOT an Octopus, is a vibrant collaboration with illustrator Jason Squadrito. Born from decades of classroom experience since the 1980s, this book launches the Nurture Learner Series.
Patience is passionate about encouraging life-long learning and finding common ground across cultural differences. Whether between student and teacher, adult and child, or peer to peer, her goal is to build a community rooted in kindness, generosity, and fun.
Introducing the "Choice Challenge"
My Teacher Is NOT an Octopus is more than a story; it is a self-regulation tool based on Patience’s affectionately named classroom strategy: the Choice Challenge. Moving away from labeling decisions as simply "good" or "bad," this fresh perspective offers six specific choices that empower children and adults to make the *best* decisions for their behavior every day.
Children and grown-ups make choices constantly—about how to treat ourselves and others. Let’s stop settling for "okay" and start making the *best* choices together.
Stay Tuned!
Keep an eye on this space for upcoming tour dates, media events, and the release of the full Nurture Learner Series.
Business Background
Patience Filippo is an apologist, altruist, artist, and the author of My Teacher Is Not an Octopus. With degrees in elementary and early childhood education, she brings decades of classroom expertise to her writing, specializing in behavior management and cross-curricular interactive themes. Her experience spans full-time teaching, substitute instruction through high school, and supervising homeschool students.
Born in Brooklyn and raised from Atlantic Beach to upstate, Patience served eight years in the United States military. Today, she is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, making book touring easier coast to coast. Where she hosts a creative arts studio and co-working hub. She is the founder of Peace Corner Community, a micro-nonprofit in the Wellington Heights neighborhood dedicated to alleviating food insecurity, supporting youth and the creative arts, and promoting animal welfare. She is also co-founded Veterans First Iowa aiding in recreation, horticultural therapeutic gardening, and financial needs of veterans, and owns a publishing company dedicated to bringing diverse stories to life.
Patience maintains a Midwest office to facilitate easy author visits and touring across the United States. Driven by her core belief, she is empowering happiness through literacy in every book she writes and every community she serves.
Contact & Social Media:
Author Visits in person/digital & Publishing Inquiries:
askmisspatience@mail.com | @askmisspatience
Community Engagement:
whcria@mail.com | whcria.com | youtube.com/@whcria
Contact
Always looking for new and exciting opportunities.