Tag: Classroom
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Building a Healthier You
Building a healthier you does not take millions of dollars. What it takes is a positive attitude and a willingness to start. You can begin today by just going for a walk.
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Horizon Coaching: a work in progress
2020 has been the year of the curveball. For me, it’s been another year to switch gears and reinvent myself and switch tracks. After ten years succeeding with middle schoolers in the classroom, I wanted a change. However, after a year, I miss teaching others how to use some life tools that I was gifted…
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Scratching Solutions
For many years I was a teacher and on a few occasions I had students ‘I hate you.’ I was always okay with it. It meant that the student was listening and responding to me just not into the relationship that we had developed. From there, it was always hard work but pretty easy to…
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What They Fear Most?
What we fear most is upon us? The feeling that our lives and livelihood have been for naught and that we will not be able to say goodbye to our loved ones. What they fear most is upon them? A moment in time in which those that serve them can rally together and make a…
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A Wading Mind
It’s hard to get along with others. It’s especially hard for someone like me to get along with others. I feel a closer connection to the wind, the trees and the animals. It probably started at birth. My first word was balloon. It seemed, from the story of losing a balloon in a park while…
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The Blame Game
Blame is a tool usually employed by siblings to avoid punishment. In 2019 it is the tool employed by those in power and who make the rules to avoid punishment. Ironic isn’t it. Why is that? When children do it at home or in the classroom, we teach them that there are alternatives to solving…
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Simple World Made Complicated by Excuses
Two and a half people come to mind in 2019 as having an understanding of this concept and living it: Greta, Melala, and Bernie. Sorry Bernie, I will only give you a half considering you are the adult in the room and progress is so slow. It doesn’t matter where I have lived over the…
Observations From the Spectrum 