My middle grades teaching career began in August 2003 when I found a teaching job in line with the guidelines for the Master of Arts in Teaching alternative route to certification. My family moved from the metro suburbs to a rural community. Yes, we moved one day, and I attended a teacher inservice the next. […]
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Happy Hour
Educators depend on time and space for professional conversations and collaboration to improve classroom instruction. Often these collaborative efforts are planned as part of professional development workshops or professional learning community sessions. Yet, what we need even more are conversations that “fill” us when we’re tapped out. Some of the most meaningful, innovative, “light-bulb” moments for […]
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Remote Learning, or whatever “it” is supposed to be
When the weekend feels the same as any other day of the week, it is difficult to make Monday feel like a real workday. Or Tuesday. Or whatever day this is. The current “learning” situation: two children have been e-learning since March 17. Somewhere during that time was a spring break. The college junior was […]
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Pandemic Productivity
What exactly is considered productive during a pandemic? I think we need to seriously reconsider what that is supposed to look like when there is a house full people. Even though I am perfectly capable of taking a book or a laptop into another room, I don’t. I find myself looking at statistics and watching […]
