I Had a Real Teacher

Life-Long Learning

03/18/2019

I consider myself a “life-long learner.” Every day I like to learn something new, whether it is an interesting fact or a new skill. Here I am in my 50s now, and I am learning new skills all the time. As I get older, I am realizing that the skills I learn may not be the same skills I was learning earlier in life. For example, in my 30s I made it my ambition to learn new ways to be successful on the basketball court, whether playing or coaching. Now in my 50s, after sustaining injuries at

The Dead of Winter

01/04/2019

You know the feeling. The Christmas holidays are over, the students are back in the classroom, still reeling from days of sugar highs and sleeping in until noon. You look around the classroom and wonder if even a fire drill could pump some energy into your students. One of your students is actually sprawled across his desk, sound asleep…you dare not look to see if he’s drooling. It’s time to do something different. You need to change things up, but you don’t know what. Once I actually brought a

Tell Your Story to Kids

11/16/2018

Stories are powerful vehicles of communication in the classroom. I remember being asked to step in for a teacher who had an unexpected circumstance to attend to one afternoon. He left no lesson plans, no agenda, and no instructions. I simply walked into the classroom and was met with 35 sets of middle school eyes, wondering how I was going to fill the last two hours of their school day. A few flittering ideas crossed my mind, but nothing of significance stuck. I knew that I had to think of

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