I spent the other night with a group of young educators, most of whom are looking to have their own classrooms in the not so distant future. And can I be honest with you about that experience? It was pretty effing refreshing. You guys, it was like...
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[caption id="attachment_1357" align="aligncenter" width="300"] image credit: (Etsy) FabulousArtPrint[/caption] I was recently avoiding working on curriculum writing, obsessing over a new house I want to buy, vegging out on Facey Face, mining the Interwebs for interesting and thought provoking material to share with my lovely readers when...
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[caption id="attachment_1363" align="aligncenter" width="227"] image credit: International Literacy Association[/caption] For the last few years (minus those periods of time when I dropped out of the blogosphere to, you know, have babies and all), I have not been shy about naming what makes a teacher fabulous. Okay,...
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[caption id="attachment_1371" align="aligncenter" width="229"] image credit: Etsy[/caption] (And for the record, I think Murphy is a douchebag.) (Also, I hope you didn't fall out of your chair/burn yourself with coffee/shit yourself when you saw that I had a new post. It's been awhile.) (Did I mention...
Read MoreSo I'm just about T-minus seven hours away from the official start of 2013 and I feel compelled to write some sort of reflective genius about the year. Hopefully you are reading this post with a drink in hand. I definitely sound much more brilliant...
Read More(If you can name the book that inspired the title of the post, you are definitely an early elementary teacher. And I love you a little bit more than I did two seconds ago.)Friends, I went running this weekend. Running. Running as in sneakers on,...
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