Summer: Our Beautiful “Do Over”
This time of year I am always reminded what a beautiful gift summer is to educators. Not just because of the beach time, time to rest and rejuvenate our passion for
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Feeling dog tired, worn out? Students are too.
Suffering from sleepy eyes, shuffling feet, depletion of patience reservoir, general irritableness? You are not alone! Your students are feeling this way too. You have worked hard this year, stretched
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My Nashville Half-Marathon: hills, pain, and serendipity
Hmmm….would I be mad or happy if the race was cancelled due to the thunderstorm? I remember thinking this the morning of the race, stomach in knots, nervous energy putting
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CRAFT a Need-Satisfying Classroom
Ryan was one of “those” students. He seemed to think he was in charge of the classroom. He was the one who decided when the whole class would laugh, when
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Is “build capacity” inadvertently insulting to teachers?
I don’t get it when educational leaders say, “I want to build the capacity of my teachers”. Maybe it is just my bias against trendy educational phrases. I fear they
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The Principal I Aspire to Be
I am reading Teach Like a PIRATE by Dave Burgess. In the book, Dave includes a fictional reflection from a student that serves as a vision for how he wants students
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Why My Blog is Named After John Cusack
“When love feels like magic, it is called destiny; when destiny has a sense of humor, it is serendipity.” -from Serendipity, a 2001 John Cusack movie Who doesn’t love John
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The Value of Being Silly
The other day I was conducting mock interviews with student teachers at a local college. The last young lady I interviewed said something that surprised me. Me: What are the
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A Principal’s Spring Break Message to Staff
August 2014, three teachers stood in the rotunda of Quincy Elementary , holding a sign that said, “Congratulations! Welcome to the Q…”. It was surreal, I was not sure what
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What Is Your Top Ten?
“If they don’t stand for something, they will fall for anything.” -Gordon A. Eadie What do you stand for? Who are you as an educator? I have been working with
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