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Oct 15, 20232 min read
Oct. 15, 2023: Conferences
Yesterday I had the pleasure of being a presenter at the Florida Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference. I presented a session...
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Oct 8, 20233 min read
Oct. 8, 2023: Saving Time
Time saving. What an interesting concept. Time is not like money that you can save and store until you need it. It ticks away at the...
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Oct 1, 20233 min read
Oct. 1, 2023: 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 24, 20233 min read
Sept. 24, 2023: Building Connections
It was a sunny Saturday morning and I was struggling with a choice…do I attend the Writer’s Workshop I had penciled in on my calendar, or...
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Sep 17, 20233 min read
Sept. 17, 2023: Email or Phone Call?
The message came through on my phone. “Call me this weekend if you can.” It was not an unexpected text. It was from a high school friend....
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Sep 10, 20232 min read
Sept. 10, 2023: Paying It Forward
This last week, as part of my role as liaison between our elementary school and the local university, I was able to get ten college...
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Sep 3, 20233 min read
Sept. 3, 2023: Balance or Integration?
My daughter recently told me that she was giving up the pursuit of Work-Life Balance, and was instead going to strive for Work-Life...
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Aug 27, 20232 min read
Aug. 27, 2023: Blocking Out and Letting Go
It was almost exactly a year ago when I posted a blog imploring the public to stop attacking teachers. Begging people to resist the urge...
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Aug 20, 20232 min read
Aug. 20, 2023: Communities of Collaboration
“Two heads are better than one.” “Many hands make light work.” It does not take much digging to find quotes touting the value of working...
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Aug 13, 20233 min read
Aug. 13, 2023: Writing Contests and Competitions
This last week I found out that my latest, as yet unpublished, middle grades novel was a semi-finalist in a respected writing...
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Aug 6, 20232 min read
Aug. 6, 2023: Why Teachers Stay
As our new school year gets underway, there continues to be a teacher shortage. Many years in the making, there are clearly many factors...
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Jul 30, 20232 min read
July 30, 2023: Good Bye Summer
Summer is over. Yes, I realize that it is still the last couple of days of July and that the official first day of autumn is not until...
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Jul 23, 20232 min read
July 23, 2023: Great Beginnings
Induction. Onboarding. Orientation. There are a lot of words that can be used to describe the process of helping someone new to a...
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Jul 16, 20232 min read
July 16, 2023: Passion
I opened an email this week from one of my former students. She was one of my graduating 5th graders, and also was part of our school’s...
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Jul 9, 20232 min read
July 9, 2023: Avoidance? Procrastination?
I have had an incredibly busy summer so far. It has been 25 days since school got out for the year, and I have had 15 days scheduled...
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Jul 2, 20232 min read
July 2, 2023: Civics and the 4th of July
I spent the better part of last week at a Civics Conference at our local University. As a self-described social-studies-nerd, I was in...
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Jun 25, 20232 min read
June 25, 2023: Jigsaw Puzzles and Writing
I was watching some of my 8-year-old students working on a jigsaw puzzle a while back. It was a puzzle they had never seen before and...
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Jun 18, 20231 min read
June 18, 2023: Happy Father's Day
Although Father’s Day has not been an official holiday as long as Mother’s Day has, (according to History.com, it did not become a...
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Jun 11, 20232 min read
June 11, 2023: The Veterans' Legacy Program
Down the rabbit hole of research. An apt phrase for me and my fellow educators this week, as we are in the middle of a 10-day Teacher...
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Jun 4, 20232 min read
June 4, 2023: Own the Failure; Share the Win.
As the Spring 2023 semester wrapped up at the university where I teach, there was a reception to bring together some of the graduating...
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