Tag: homeschool
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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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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…
Observations From the Spectrum 