I just finished listening to the audiobook version of Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown (read by the author). I am in awe. It is a beautifully written semi-memoir with a vein of magic realism throughout. The author shares her life, her perspective, and a her history as a black girl in America. It required…
These warm and easy days of Summer give me time to try new things and well… love them. These days I am loving a few new things that help keep the world and myself a little more healthy and happy. Stainless Steel Straws I don’t use a ton of straws in my daily life, but…
I am quite certain I have remembered this before, but July has allowed me a new remembering of that previous rememberment–it is important to play in your teaching. The other day in my ESY Summer School classroom we were listening to the Trolls Soundtrack during Centers time. One of my little pea pods clearly had…
Gah! It sure is hard to teach and live and blog and do all the things. Time passes so quickly in a woosh of days, moments, and last-minutes. While I have sworn more than once that I would never ever teach during the Summer again, I am. And you know what? It’s great! I teach…
And so. I’ve been back in the teaching saddle for a year now. Tried my hat at administration, learned so much from some amazing people, and realized that without kids in my daily life, I just ain’t happy (my grammar starts to go down the tubes too). As is my penchant, I decided to try…
Student: Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a duck? Me: Actually, not one time in my life so far. Should I have? Student: Well, it might be a good idea.
Earlier this year the students I had the great fortune of teaching at the time were choosing theme songs. The purpose was to help create a vision of success in their growing brains while sneaking in some reading and writing. We talked about imagining themselves enter a room, concert hall, field, meeting–whatever location would hold…
Sometimes it takes a mighty push to get back on track. Thank you author Natalie Lloyd for the exact kind of push I needed. Before the end of the first chapter of A Snicker of Magic I was itchin’ to share the magic with y’all. I’m only on Chapter Four right now and I couldn’t wait…
Sometimes you wear the cape and sometimes you’re… Jimmy Olson. From Wikipedia: James Bartholomew “Jimmy” Olsen is a fictional character who appears mainly in DC Comics’ Superman stories. Olsen is a young photojournalist working for the Daily Planet. He is close friends with Lois Lane and Clark Kent/Superman, and has a good working relationship with…
Thank you to Amy at Reflections on Leadership and Learning for introducing me to this idea! Here is a list of things I am “currently” doing, thinking, buying, etc-ing… Current Celebration I am celebrating whimsy. I’ve been using #whimsy365 on my social media accounts to post photos of things that make my thoughts go “awe…
For this installment in the Abecedary of Cape-Wearing, I will focus on the enemy. I typically avoid enemy and villain talk for a few reasons. Mostly, I prefer to not give airtime to the negative. Also, I don’t want to spend my time writing about the things that bother me. I know there are plenty of truly…
This week I had a few opportunities to appreciate integrity in new ways, and it became a New Favorite Things Friday List in my head. Integrity isn’t exactly a new favorite thing, I’ve always been a fan, as most of us are, but this week I had a couple of opportunities to see integrity in…
Yes, behavior does lead to consequence—no doubt about it. In schools, though, it can be too easy to apply a consequence that doesn’t match the behavior, doesn’t teach the desired behavior, and doesn’t have any impact on the journey of our littlest heroes.
Okay tootsies… it’s time to get down with some philosophy up in the blogosphere. As I reach the almost halfway mark of the Abecedary of Cape-Wearing with the letter L. L is for the Law of Unintended Consequences Here are some quick definitions: –events and/or actions that result from the implementation of a law of…
Kal-El was a boy on the planet Krypton without special powers. Due to a brief ride through space, and a shift in gravity, he was graced with incredible strength and some laser vision and became what we know as Superman. But as Kal-El—is he a superhero?
Wear The Cape 