Tag: 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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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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The Adults in the Room
Is it me or have the adults left the room. I read a Twitter post recently in which the writer asked if the political system had always been this crazy or are we at a different place. My thought, a different place. Wherever I look, I see entitled whiny wimpy scared uncertain angry people who…
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Peace, Love, Hope for More
I was brought up Catholic and to believe in the J man. I was also taught about the resurrection and the crucifixion and world history. How in the Middle Ages we fought the Holy Wars to promote faith. What Robin Hood was based on. And how in WWII Adolf Hitler wanted to create a race…
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Happy Gilmore and Tony Stark
My bond is with the people, and I will serve this great nation at the pleasure of myself. If there’s one thing I’ve proven it’s that you can count on me to pleasure myself. — Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Iron Man 2 In many ways the fictional character of Tony Stark and Iron…
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A Dodo Bird
When I was a middle school teacher, I had to become familiar with what middle schoolers do and watch. On occasion, like when I was sick or before a holiday, I would call on this information to choose an age appropriate film to watch, learn from and discuss. One of the series that I used…
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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 