Qualities of Leadership Series: #2 Resilience
What do you consider important for students to know? Is it the content in your class? Is it how to apply that content to everyday life? Or, might it be…
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Bouncing Degrees & Graduation Dates
Today is Slice of Life Tuesday. This means my blog is shared with other bloggers via the forum founded by TwoWritingTeachers.org. I am proud to have been a part of…
Over or Under Qualified? The Job Hunt.
A few months ago I posted about looking for a job. You can read my post here. I wrote it in February. It’s August. I still don’t have a job.…
Enrichment Based Summer School Work Morphs into AP Course Prep
Yesterday was August fifth! I honestly do not know where this summer has gone! In the past, during most summers, I kept my boys busy with enrichment exercises to prevent…
18 is Not a Magic Number
Due to changes in the laws regarding privacy and such, a parent is no longer able to access health records, tuition bills, or any kind of private communication deemed to…
Teaching Out of a Bag: The World of Informal Educators
For the first time ever, I got to teach a class during a summer school session today. It sounds kind of crazy but I have always wanted to teach summer…
How Can We Prepare Students to be Global Citizens When We Rarely Hire From”Outside” Our Own Communities?
Teachers, Principals, Superintendents, all with links to our community. Some of these people were students at our high school, student teachers in our classrooms, life long community members residing in…
Does New Educational Lingo Impede Progress?
Every few years, new educational buzzwords seem to surface. I remember first noticing this when we were in the third year of running a district wide Parent Support Group for…
