Frogs, Sharks and Other Motivators during a Crisis “What about Sharky?” asked one of my students, “Where is he?” This question was posed in response to me showing my class a stuffed frog that had a quarantine mask over its…
Continue ReadingPursuing Positivity (Part I): You don’t need fixing! Does it ever sound like this inside your brain? “My students are not paying attention to me.” “I lost them.” “They are glazing over”. “They are looking at me strangely. Did I…
Continue ReadingReflect and Recharge Alright…I have reorganized our mudroom and have everything ready to paint it next week. It has a whole row of cabinets, so this is going to be quite a summer project. I don’t know about you, but…
Continue Reading“May I sew you to your sheets?” This was a mistake a good friend of mine made consistently when she worked as an usher at a theatre. She, of course, meant to say “May I show you to your seats?”…
Continue ReadingA Retrospective – Part II Here we go again! We are back in our time machine and heading to the year 1987. Buckle up! As you may recall from Part I, my first year of teaching had its ups and…
Continue ReadingA Retrospective of 1987 – Part I Alright. It’s time to climb into the time machine and go back to a year that I swore I never wanted to relive: 1987. That was the year for big hair, big…
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