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 how to keep working through a problem they might encounter along the way? Fostering resilience is part of an educator’s job. It is also a…
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 this supportive writing community, many of whom are educators, since March of 2017. School Year Commences Today, the school year begins for our resident school…
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. As I’ve looked, and applied to at least one job that interested me, I’ve realized that I am overqualified for some and under qualified for…
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 what is commonly known as the summer slide. When they were younger this meant involvement in the library reading program, tracking all the books they…
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 be for your “adult” son or daughter once they turn 18. I am finding this hard to deal with. In early June, my second college…
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 school. For many years, I asked. For many years, nothing came of it. But, being at a different school this year, in a different district,…
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 our neighborhoods, and we hire them. We hire them to teach our children. Our school district has a vision statement of “Educating every student to…
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 families with Talented and Gifted students. In the third year of our existence, 2013, a new instructional services person was hired. She was not new…
Today is Slice of Life Tuesday and since most participants are educators that participate in this posting forum, I thought I would share about my experience of running for a vacant seat on our school board. We had a school board election last April. An incumbent who served for 20 years lost by 18 votes….