Tasty Bites for Teachers' Minds

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." -Maya Angelou Hello all you intentional and conscientious snackers!  I have taught (at different times over the years in some cases) Pre-K-12 Music and Theater, Middle School Spanish, High School English, and Social Studies since 1990. I also spend a good amount of time talking with colleagues across the spectrum of academic disciplines and grade levels. I mention these because I don't want you

“If my students are to meet every inch of their academic potential, I must understand the barriers to education that exist for them.” ― Kyle Schwartz, I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids Kia ora, excellent snackers! I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned this before...I am a teacher with an ADHD brain (I don't want you to think that I don't have data ...;-). I sustect that some of you are, as well. Welcome, fam! I've also mentioned that, i

Kind greetings, snackers! Sincere thanks for clicking and reading. Seriously...what's going on ? Given all of our hard work around differentiation, why are we still using this insidious binary: Good. Bad. REALLY?!!! Unfortunately, I still hear these words used by students and adults to describe behavior and achievement. Which is interesting , given how quickly we can rattle off a copious list of valid reasons for why people who do things way less important than education do