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Get Your Creative On!
Are you creative? It’s amazing how often people say they aren’t. I’m fascinated by ‘creativity’ – the stuff that happens in the Right Brain – the process of creativity and the gazillion ways to demonstrate it, the psychological, spiritual, and physical need for it in my own life, and its incredibly important (and often overlooked)…
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From Every Book…. Learning the Pleasures of Being Literate {Slice of Life}
I wonder: Who taught you the pleasures of reading and writing? Did you discover them in high school? Earlier? Later? In my high school Intensive Reading/Critical Thinking class, it takes a while to get students to ‘buy into’ reading for pleasure. It’s not uncommon to hear, “You want us to read???” followed by:…
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Tell Us About Yourself: Sending an Introvert Into a Tailspin
Freaked out at the thought of having to introduce yourself to strangers? Several months ago I blogged about my BIG discovery {here}, after reading Susan Cain’s, Quiet: The Power of Introverts, last December. What a great read! In it, she discusses introverts in our society and society’s response to them. She writes, “The…
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Becoming Unnecessary
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. ~ Thomas Carruthers Become unnecessary? Why would I do that? Because as teachers and as parents, it’s our responsibility to our students/children. My two cents?? Teach kids the definition of integrity: what you do when no one is looking,” … and get out of the way.…
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Early Childhood Ed: Tykes, Testing, and (Future) Teachers
This post was first published in 2011. At the time, I was a member of our district’s CTE Instructional Support team. Since then, I returned to my own academic classroom, where I’ve spent the past three+ years. Now, with a wish to return to CTE, I’m sharing an answer to…