Reflections on my life as a teacher. Sol17- January 10, 2017. On the 3rd I was set to have an adventure at the Hwaseong Fortress. As I walked I kept an eye out for a place to eat- I had not had anything yet. Eventually, I found a sweet looking coffee shop and managed to order tea and spend a cozy half hour writing, but left still hungry.

To Read To Write To Be. Thoughts on learning and teaching. The rain had just let up. The first day back, after three weeks without their friends, you can imagine the crazy. After settling, a little, I asked students if they noticed any changes in the room.

A blog about teaching, education, and professional life. Ours is a cacophony of misdirection from inside and outside the profession. I wrote the following dialogue to help me process through the junk regularly flung at educators. I also wanted to share some of the resources that have nourished me this year. Wrong In Mean Scores in a Mean World. But not an achievement gap.

Travel, love, and living life! December 12, 2016. Whenever the opportunity arises, I am typically there with a helping hand, even if I am so tired, so anxious, so everything else in that moment. I procrastinate, but typically when it comes to self-care. Why do people do this? But it also so easy to forget.

Snippets of learning and life. The morning sun shone through the stained glass windows, casting jewel-tone light on the baby grand piano, a soothing sight to the weary woman whose busy child was churning her insides. The pianist took a seat and began to play the prelude. The baby hears the music. 8220;What are you doing? 8220;When I .

Waiting for our order of cold deliciousness to be handed over, I was quietly transported back in time. I distinctly heard my friend, Nancy, call my name. 8220;Yes, oh yes! Nancy chose me .

What can I do differently next time? How can get that reluctant learner to engage? Were the students able to apply what they learned in the mini-lesson? I know I am blind to some of my weaknesses. I want to be that person. I want to help my teachers take that stance, too. I was on the look-out for .

Writing is the painting of the voice -Voltaire-. Getting ready for the best year yet. Passion and being passionate is the theme for our new school year. As I have been working in my classroom and with my colleagues, I have been trying to plan with that theme in mind. I have to admit that passion is easily lost in the mountain of paperwork that I have to do every fall before students arrive and also in the first few weeks of a new school year. Can they read and write as well? Then there a.