Musings and reflections on educational topics from a real life educator.
When my daughter was in 5th or 6th grade she was getting called a certain derogatory name due to the fact that her body was developing quite early. I recall her coming home and telling me her experience and her feelings around this. She was hurt and confused. She couldn’t understand why this girl said... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- School LunchAfter 3 days and one week of school, there have been a lot of opinions, assumptions, rumors- whatever you want to call them- about the new lunch program. A brief lesson: Senate Bill 4 was passed this past spring to support free breakfast and lunch for ALL students in New Mexico. Los... Continue Reading →
Success. We talk about success all the time, especially in school. Success is getting your assignments done. It is getting an A on a test. It is advancing to the next level. It is graduating from high school, college, kindergarten(whatever). Success has been defined by income and status. If we see someone who has a... Continue Reading →
I am towards the end of the second week of Coronacation from school. Well, it is actually the 3rd week because we had spring break before the enforced hiatus from school. Did I struggle the 1st week- couldn't focus, couldn't get motivated, kind of hid away from the world and was sort of in shock... Continue Reading →
A word keeps popping up in my life lately. Connection. I googled it, here is what I found: 1. a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else. .. "the connections between social attitudes and productivity." 2. the action of linking one thing with another..." connection to the Internet." 4. The... Continue Reading →
I was recently at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe, the state capital. I was there to speak to the education committee about education. I was there with about two to three hundred other educators. I stood there listening to my colleagues from across the state talk about education. Some were anecdotal, some provided data, others... Continue Reading →
I took the day off today. I had to take my boys to the High School to get them registered for the upcoming school year. I am sitting at a table with my 8th-grade son and his soon-to-be advisor. She looks over his middle school transcript and sees that he is not doing very well... Continue Reading →
My job is hard. I am sitting at my desk in tears. And it is not the grading. It is not an overwhelming lack of time to do the tasks that I have to do. It is not the lesson planning or the lessons that flop. It is not the holding of my bladder for... Continue Reading →
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