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31 Days of Awesome
I have spent the last 31 mornings at the gym patiently waiting between sets for the new post for the #31DaysIBPOC blogging challenge...
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Live in the moments
It is nearing in on the end of the year. Today was the three week mark with students and then exam week. I am not counting down I am...
A view from the top
So this week was full of ups and downs. I had started the week off knowing that I had an interview for a position of Vice Principal at my...
Core Beliefs Revisited
Reflections bringing me back to the beginning I was reading We Got This by Cornelius Minor today while my students were reading a little...
A Post-A Quote-A Thought
So I am sitting at the gym this morning between sets and I check my twitter feed to see the daily post under the #31daysIBPOC hashtag....
The need to write
“When you are writing your stories, write for yourself” -Katherine Applegate. I have had a bit of a writers block this week. A lot going...
Ok to walk
I started out my teaching career at a run. I wanted to change the world, I wanted my students to change the world. I had just spent a few...
Trying New Things is Hard
Quick Podcast version Twitter is filled with amazing educators. I often get the start of a great idea from something shared by others....
What are we doing?
I have asked myself this question a lot lately. As I sit and listen to my students talk about the struggles they have in school be it...
Conversations
So today I started the day a little frazzled but had decided already that I wanted to talk to the kids about how stories reflect real...
Setting the bar
Today we were watching a TED talk with a young girl that proclaimed that students will work to our expectations as teachers. If we set...
With all kids in mind
This last week as we started #projectspeak in my 8th grade LA class I have spent a lot of time thinking about student voice and choice,...
The Light Jar and Lessons learned
I have been reading Lisa Thompson's The Light Jar over the last couple weeks. I love Lisa Thompson's The Goldfish Boy so much I bought a...
Darn it
So I have been playing around the last 24 hours with a post idea and in my best procrastinating stance I have decided that rather than...
Dear Virtuoso Educators
I know my friend Mary Howard does not like the term expert so Virtuoso it is. In this day and age where access is quite literally at the...
Sitting in Silence
I am very often loud. I am a rather high energy individual and teacher. I have fun, I get excited about ideas and I go off track... a...
Gasping for Air
The last sentence is just beautiful It is no surprise to regular readers that I am a huge fan of the work of Bob Probst and Kylene Beers....
Book Clubs Revisited
The Books Why book clubs? I started working with a book club approach a few years ago as an experiment in 6th grade. I wanted to move...
Moments
In November I signed on to help with our varsity basketball program. I still chuckle about the notion as do many others who know me. This...
March Madness
Oh it is that time of year where the March Madness crazy starts to over take the world. I tend to love seeing the different brackets on...
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