Tasty Bites for Teachers' Minds

Welcome back, hard-working and amazing colleagues! I'm so grateful that you've chosen to stop and read. OK, how many of our mornings begin this way...? We engage with Our Electronic Devices of Choice and are promptly steered to "the funnies". We scroll, often lingering until we're left rushing around trying to finish getting ready for the day. These insidious little quotes and memes about our practice seem at first to be inocuous anecdotes and illustrations about teaching an

Greetings, diligent and compassionate colleagues! If I was to ask, I'd bet that most teachers who are dragging at the end of the day are doing so because they're weary of saying the same things to the same students all the time . Stop reading right now and click that 5th star at the end of this post if this applies to you. One thing I don't hear from many people on the subject is how big a part our immediate reaction to classroom disruption plays in the resolution. A lot is

I never have been in despair about the world. I've been enraged by it… I can't afford despair. You can't tell the children that there is no hope...James Baldwin Today, I had the privilege of running into a former student at the store. I asked what she was up to, and she told me that she was a teacher...! A newly-minted special educator, in fact, working at a school not far from my own. It was such a breath of fresh air...a not-so-tiny miracle that opened for me right there, i