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Do You Know Your Why?

Every teacher knows their what. It is often part of our contract or presented in some other formal document before…

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How do you reflect on your practice?

What’s New? This semester I approached my classroom observation with a new tool in hand and it completely changed the…

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The Real Learning Loss

Our spring of pandemic teaching was a mess. Our fall of pandemic teaching was a mess. It was always going…

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Let Them Connect

I want to share a lesson I learned from my students that I suspect your students want you to learn:…

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3 Changes To My Pandemic Teaching Plan

As I begin my third semester of pandemic teaching (not counting the summer and winter terms), fully recognizing that before…

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Resist: My #OLW for 2021

Electric resistance as human, teacher, writer Why resist? Because 2021 will be about resisting the urge to complacency for my…