Judy Lindquist

Defined as the ability to withstand and recover quickly from difficulty, resilience has become a new buzzword in education.  Yes,...

Banned Books Week starts today!  This is a week designed to raise awareness of censorship and to celebrate the freedom to read. First...

Self-Care.  A concept that has been around for generations, yet it seemed to have gotten a new label sometime during our pandemic years. ...

“Change is what happens. Transition is what we do about it.”   That phrase was recently share with my husband.  His company has just...

I was recently working with a group of students on revising their writing.  This seems to be the stage in the writing process that...

“Everyone’s path is different.” That exact phrase was recently said to me in two very different settings.    As the Lead Mentor at my...

Creating teacher materials to go with your books.  That was a recent topic in an online writer’s group and differing perspectives soon...

Banned books is certainly not a new topic. People have been banning books for as long as there have been books.  When I teach the...

Although August is still considered a summer month, here in Florida, (and many other southern states) the new school year gets underway...

A discussion I have had with my elementary school writing students, my college students, and in my adult writing groups…. Is there such a...

Optimists are defined as people who are hopeful and confident about the future. Pessimists are defined as those who tend to believe the...

I am about at the mid-point in the Summer Semester and the Social Studies Class I am teaching at the University.  We are deep into the...

Life is a series of ups and downs. We can’t truly appreciate the joy without the sorrow.  Failure means you are trying. There are so many...

This has been a very unusual summer for me. As I recover from my second knee-replacement surgery in 6 months, I am very limited in what I...

As a teacher, much of my summer reading list is filled with children’s literature.  At this point I am working my way through the new...

I have reached the age where my friends who are without their parents greatly outnumber my friends who still have one or both of their...

The term dormant, in scientific terms, means the conserving of resources by going into a seep-like, or inactive state. Dormant can also...

They happen every day.  So often, in fact, that we often miss them. Medical progress, procedures, medications, and interventions that...

Year 30 as a classroom teacher is now in the books.  Last week was our last week of this school year.  As you can imagine, it was a...

“Mrs. Lindquist, I need some feedback…” One of my 5th graders plopped her laptop down on my desk and began to show me the slides she was...