A colleague of mine was wiping out an old work computer and found a video clip from years ago. In the video, students were participating in interviews unaware that their favorite teachers were dancing in the background like fools. As I watched this clip I was filled with a warm, familiar feeling that resonated [...]
Tag: Education
Remote Learning: A Glimpse at Student Dependency
Education was thrust into a form of learning that has never been done before as students took to their computers to access their virtual classrooms. As a special educator for nearly two decades my first thought was, “Oh no! How will our students thrive without a lack of support?” Support looks different for each of [...]
Tomorrow’s Lesson Plan: Teaching Students How to Master Fear
The reality that existed on the last day we saw our students in March has quickly become a far different reality than what we will be presented with in the fall. Homes across the world are being infiltrated with uncertainty. Job loss, anxiety over the health of loved ones, and the management of social [...]
Parent Overload
Caution: You will not receive any apps, websites, virtual tours, or downloadable worksheets in the contents of this message. Enough is enough already. Parents have been inundated with websites, apps, worksheets, pictures of perfect schedules, and a variety of Pinterest mommy-perfect resources. They have been given a boatload of options, yet are told to keep [...]
This is not what I signed up for…
Distraction: The Detriment to our Tomorrow Twenty years ago when I entered college as an aspiring educator, I had a host of things I knew to be true about the profession of teaching. I expected to work hard, which would require a grueling work ethic that summer would not absolve. I knew I would have [...]
Fear
Heart pounding. Hands sweating. Mind racing. For many of us, this is what we conjure up when we think of fear. A freight train of emotion that warrants an immediate and obvious response. However, the toxic residue that lies behind fear is not always the crushing presence of adrenaline. In fact, most often it is [...]
Teacher Traps
I, no doubt, stupidly thought that teaching adorable children with special needs would be so gratifying that it would be easy! I will save you all the suspense, but after teaching students with disabilities for over 15 years, I quickly ended up catching a clue. Teaching was anything, but easy and the person making it [...]
The Beauty of Enough
You are a miracle. In fact, the odds you were born at all are 1 in 400 Quadrillion to 10 to the 2,640,000th power. There is no one on the face of this Earth that is you. Yes, even if you have an identical twin sibling, you are still different walking phenomenons. So it is [...]
Summer is…
Summer is quickly coming to an end. Don’t tell me it is still July...It’s almost over folks and you know it. You know it when you feel your palms sweat at the sight of a back to school ad. You know it when you feel your chest tighten at the mere mention of that nasty [...]
