7:00am The sun just peeks over the White Tank Mountains and onto the field as the boy’s and girl’s soccer teams and coaches begin warm-ups and the cool air fills with music and shouts. Over 1,200 preschool through eighth-grade students
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You are the light
As the 1st semester draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on why it is we do what we do day in and day out. With so much negative media out there its
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When Life Gives You Lemons…
I have heard people often say “if you love what you do, you won’t feel stressed.” Are you kidding me? The challenges I have faced this school year has definitely thrown this saying out the window! It just isn’t true
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Hell’s Bells
So my last blog post was titled “Back in Black,” which – I hope – made you sing just a smidge of AC/DC and maybe play a little air guitar; AC/DC has a song by the same name that holds
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Society is Shaped in the Elementary Classroom
Renewable Resources Most agree that social justice in America is becoming more questionable. We are a nation drenched in biases, prejudices, and mistreatments. We have a multitude of programs and initiatives aimed at righting these wrongs ranging from the Civil
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Voices from the Field Vol.1
The Montessori Teacher As a mentor teacher, I really want to highlight the voices of my first-year teachers this year. As a result, I will be doing a series of blogs where my mentees get to share their journey and
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Striking Out With Math Interventions
In The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver writes that if you obsess over a data point, like your batting average, instead of the process of hitting, you probably won’t raise your average. But if you spend your time learning
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It Takes a Village
No, my family is not a family of teachers. In fact, I am the only teacher in my family! When I decided to leave a nearly decade-long career in luxury retail to become a high school English teacher, my family,
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Back in Black
It has, undoubtedly, been a minute since I’ve posted a blog. Since the presidential election last year, there has been much going on in our world that has given me pause – pause to the point of not being able
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Thriving in a “No Time” Workplace
Do you have one of those overwhelming projects on your To Do list that weighs down your soul but never gets done? Or perhaps it’s a series of smaller projects that always get pushed aside by tasks that require immediate
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