Judy Lindquist

As our new school year gets underway, there continues to be a teacher shortage. Many years in the making, there are clearly many factors...

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...

Induction. Onboarding. Orientation. There are a lot of words that can be used to describe the process of helping someone new to a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

As the Spring 2023 semester wrapped up at the university where I teach, there was a reception to bring together some of the graduating...

I just finished my 29th year as an elementary school teacher. I have spent this last week, packing up my classroom for the summer....

It happened again last week. We were at a dinner party some friends were hosting. There were some out-of-state visitors there that we...

I always believed that Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became an official U.S. holiday in 1914. A holiday that was...

Perhaps me writing about the power of a great teacher may seem disingenuous. I am after all, a teacher. But today I am taking off my...

I was recently a guest speaker at a local writer’s group, and I was sharing the process and journey of getting my first book...

Teaching writing is a complex mix of accepted technique and creativity. Art and science. Understanding the writing process, writing...

There are so many incredible, charitable foundations out there, each as worthy as the next. For most of us however, since our time,...

I am once again sharing one of my favorite Easter Photos from my youth. Growing up in the Northeast in the 1960s, Easter was a big deal!...

Here in Florida lately, there has been a lot of focus on discomfort. Our state legislature has crafted a law that essentially says that...

A term originally coined years ago to summarize the NCAA spring Basketball Tournament, I have begun to feel that the term is applicable...