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SEpt. 25, 2022: The Power of Journalism
This week a new journalism club was launched at my school. Open to 4th and 5thgraders, two other teachers and I are sponsoring this...
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- Sep 18
- 3 min
Sept. 18, 2022: Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week starts today! This is a week designed to raise awareness of censorship and to celebrate the freedom to read. First...
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- Sep 13
- 2 min
Sept. 12, 2022: The Therapy of Mundane Tasks
Mundane tasks. Those routine, repetitive, sometimes boring, often mindless tasks that must be done. They are a necessary part of any...
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- Sep 4
- 3 min
Sept. 4, 2022: I See Greatness, Every Day
The world is a tough place. Things don’t always go as planned. Disappointment is par-for-the-course. Challenges and obstacles seem to...
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- Aug 28
- 2 min
Aug. 28, 2022: Stop Attacking Teachers!
I am an American Public-School Teacher. I am not “indoctrinating” children. I am not “grooming” children. I am educating students. I...
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- Aug 21
- 2 min
Aug. 21, 2022: Private Writing
I have been thinking a lot about journals and diaries and notebooks lately. This week I “took custody” of my paternal grandfather’s...
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- Aug 14
- 2 min
Aug. 14, 2022: Feedback, Critiques, and Coaching...Oh My!
We live in a world full of feedback. Simply put, our action gets a result, and whether or not that is the result we wanted, we know...
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- Aug 7
- 3 min
August 7, 2022: New Book Reveal
This is the moment every writer works for! When they can send their newly published book out into the world! Although this is my fourth...
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- Jul 31
- 2 min
July 31, 2022: Physical Space
What will your physical space say about your values? That was a question that was posed to the new teachers during our induction sessions...
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- Jul 24
- 2 min
July 24, 2022: Mentoring Helps the Mentor Too
I just spent this last week as part of our county’s Great Beginnings Team of facilitators. This is a week in which the teachers who are...
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- Jul 17
- 3 min
July 17, 2022: Backward Facing Books
Apparently, there is a new trend in home decorating in which books are shelved facing backward, so their spines are inside and all you...
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- Jul 10
- 2 min
July 10, 2022: Competition?
I was recently chatting with my 9 year old granddaughter about how her swim team practices were going. Now that she was a few weeks into...
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- Jul 3
- 2 min
July 3, 2022: Small Acts
It has certainly been an eventful and stressful few weeks. With the challenges of covid still on the fringes of our everyday life, even...
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- Jun 26
- 2 min
June 26, 2022: Whose Voice is Missing?
Earlier this month I had the privilege of attending a week-long Teacher Institute on Early American History. It was intense, inspiring,...
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- Jun 20
- 2 min
June 20, 2022: Letters
I have been thinking a great deal about letters lately. Last week, I had the privilege of participating in a George Washington Summer...
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- Jun 13
- 2 min
June 12, 2022: Gardening and Writing
Whether you count summer as starting on the official day when the sun reaches its northernmost point (June 21st this year), or the...
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- Jun 5
- 2 min
June 5, 2022: Whose Story Is It?
I recently finished reading the book The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron, and while I thoroughly enjoyed the book, it was her...
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- May 29
- 1 min
May 29, 2022: And That's a Wrap!
Well, year #28 as an elementary school teacher is now in the books. I have spent this last week, packing up my classroom for the summer....
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- May 22
- 3 min
May 22, 2022: Journal Writing as a Tool
Journal Writing is a pretty broad category. It can be as open-ended as a diary-like book in which personal random thoughts and ideas are...
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- May 15
- 1 min
Thank you teachers!
The first week of May is our National Teacher Appreciation Week. It is a week when students and parents everywhere shower the teachers in...
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