If I Am The Face of My Classroom, Then You Are The Backbone
As Mental Health Awareness month comes to an end and there has been so much talk about what is being done and what isn’t being done and why shouldn’t more
Read MoreDay: May 23, 2019
The VOICES of THOSE KIDS
During preservice a few years ago, I ran into a group of new teachers at lunch. We had a brief conversation about where we worked. When they heard where I taught, a PRTF (Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility), one of the teachers said, “Good for you. I couldn’t work with THOSE kids.” I said, “You do realize when THOSE kids leave […]
Learning is Not Closed
Changing aren’t coming. They’re here. Everything is changing. Again. Hard decisions were made in most of our communities. Precautions and restrictions and shut downs. Quarantines and capacities and illnesses. I know emotions are high and opinions are all over the place. Not everyone agrees or understands. Some will make the transition relatively easily and some it’s going to hit hard. […]