Last year was a turning point for me. As a teacher, I decided to give up much of my work outside of school in exchange for a deeper, fuller presence with my students. I pledged to bring less of my job home with me so that I could apply more of myself during the day.Continue reading “Slice of Life Tuesday: It’s Not Terrible”
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Slice of Life Tuesday: Winter Poem
Today’s poem is about winter, but it’s really for all of us feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, or alone.
Slice of Life Tuesday: Writing Group!
Last Thursday, I got to host an online writing group with some of my students. I’m still smiling.
Slice of Life Tuesday: Getting Brave
I did it! I finally crafted a work of allegorical fiction. I’ve published the first excerpt this week, and I’ll publish the next part of the story on Slice of Life Tuesdays.
Poetry Month Day 9: Depending on When You Met Me
Today’s #Verselove poetry challenge is to compose a “depending on when you met me” poem. It’s a good way to think about all of the “me’s” I’ve been over the years, and to whom.
Slice of Life Day 21: Coming Together
It wasn’t expressly planned, but it was a very happy coincidence that the days before spring break turned out to be the days my fourth graders and I constructed the artwork for our Leo Leonni anthology. We’re still a work in progress (I mean, aren’t we all?) but I thought I’d share the latest.
Slice of Life Day 20: Ask and You Shall Receive
Today, I asked my fifth-grade students for advice on how to move forward with my story. Boy, did they deliver!
Slice of Life Day 16: Infinite Pedantry*
Pedantry is the quality of being too interested in formal rules and small details that are not important. Given the grudge I’ve held against my math teacher for almost forty years, that might describe me…
Slice of Life Day 13: I Didn’t Think
I didn’t think this post would come together, but here it is…
Slice of Life Day 14: On Being Smart
My second graders are learning about children all around the world. We’re using materials based on the UNICEF work from the Conventions on the Rights of the Child. Right now, we’re learning about at what every kid has a right to, including the right to be healthy, to play, to have an identity, to food,Continue reading “Slice of Life Day 14: On Being Smart”
Soapbox: The Way I see Things 