Tag: Homeschool Teacher
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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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Resilient to Change
A cooling breeze on a summer day is sometimes all we need. Many times though the solution is more complicated. I think sometimes we forget that change is necessary and resiliency is the skill we need to apply to survive. America 2020 could stand to ponder this for a bit before November when election day…
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Cure All, Teach All and the Capitalist
Every time I hear or see an educator toting or selling a new educational Cure All, Teach All product, I see them for what they are, snake salespeople hawking their wares. Teaching is quite simple: know your content, know your kids, meet the needs of your kids in real time. However, more often than not,…
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American Values – The Compromise?
As a 46 year old teacher I for certain have observed this one interesting conundrum and that is, a class full of middle school students could do a better job than the federal government and especially the Democratic party. Why? Because in elementary school is when you build a student foundation and middle school is…