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Originally published on June 15, 2017 Happy Thursday! This past Sunday I was watching 60 Minutes and there was a report about the...

Originally published on May 25, 2017 Happy Thursday! Last week I wrote about routines and how important they are. There’s something...

Originally published on May 4, 2017 Happy Thursday! I work in a state where we do not assess students in grades 3-8 at the very end of...

Originally published on May 18, 2017 Happy Thursday! As a secondary certified teacher, the amount of time I spent learning about teaching...

Originally published on April 17, 2017 Happy Thursday! I never really remember struggling in school when it came to academics. I...

Originally posted 4.20.17 Happy Thursday! Earlier this school year I drafted a letter about running but I never sent it. Something else...

Originally posted 4.6.17 Happy Thursday! In my last post I asked you a question, do you believe that people are really doing the best...

Originally posted 4.5.17 Happy Wednesday! I heard Brene Brown, in her audio book for Rising Strong ask the question, “Do you think that...

Originally posted 3.23.17 Happy Thursday! So when I was in middle school (or there abouts), we had an assembly where a man told us the...

Originally posted 3.16.17 Happy Thursday! At the conference I attended a couple of years ago, Dan O’Brien was the keynote speaker. The...

Originally posted 3.9.17 Happy Thursday! It’s funny how we were all feeling so good about the start of the year and how in just a few...

Originally posted 3.2.17 Happy Thursday! Being a teacher is not easy.  If it were, we wouldn’t need rigorous certification...

Originally posted 3.2.17 Happy Thursday! Have you ever noticed that a child can watch the same movie/cartoon/show over and over and over...

Originally posted 2.11.17 Happy Thursday! In 2008 I attended an ASCD conference in New Orleans.  This was the first ASCD conference I'd...

Originally posted 2.11.17 Happy Thursday! When I graduated from high school I wanted to be an author.  Though my life has gone in a...

Originally posted 2.16.17 Happy Thursday! I have been reading Robyn Jackson’s Never Work Harder Than Your Students: And Other Principles...