“The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help. That way even if you sniffle a little they won’t hear you.” This is just one of
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Destress in Seconds
John Maeda, wanting to write a simple book about keeping things simple, set the goal of limiting The Laws of Simplicity, to 100 pages. Likewise, my goal is to take about 100 words to recommend a powerful, seconds long, de-stressing meditation, that I
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Culturally Responsive Teaching: When It’s Silly and When It’s Not
Culturally Responsive Teaching leads to much serious discussion about how best to welcome and teach students who come to us from innumerable ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. It also leads to much silliness. On the silly side, one can find this quote
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Organized Chaos or The Prepared Learning Environment (Continued)
During our first glance at the prepared learning environment, we looked at how freedom, structure and order, and beauty are key elements that answer the developmental needs of elementary children to create structure. Today, we will look at the last
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Let’s Be Mavens
Are you a trusted expert in your particular field who seeks to pass knowledge and truth on to others? Then you might just be a Maven. Are you a person who networks like crazy? – Maven This past summer
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Summer Learnin,’ Had Me a Blast
I’m usually a firm believer in the “too much rest is rust” saying by Sir Walter Scott. However, upon completing the school year in May, my body needed a little time to rust, I mean, rest. Summer days driftin’ away
Read MoreNo One Puts State 48 in the Corner!
While walking my dog one morning, I bumped into a fellow teacher who lives in my neighborhood. She happened to be my student teacher four years ago, and when we worked together, she was full of hopes and dreams of
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No One Puts State 48 in the Corner!
While walking my dog one morning, I bumped into a fellow teacher who lives in my neighborhood. She happened to be my student teacher four years ago, and when we worked together, she was full of hopes and dreams of
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Finish Strong
I have a confession to make- it’s been six months since I have been at my gym. Yes, in the past six months I have moved to a new house farther away from the facility, moderately strained my back, and
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The Power of Writing: A Story of Woes and Whoas
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. I would read “Little Women,” “Black Beauty,” and the “Anne of Green Gables” books, dreaming of when my first book would be published. I
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