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Just Thinking | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. We All Crave the Mystery Box. January 9, 2016. At 2:30 in the morning a few months ago, I woke up in vomit. My husband had brought our crying baby into our room sometime around 1:00 (unbeknownst to me), and at 2:30 we figured out why she was so unhappy. When, after cleaned and placed fast asleep back in her own bed, she woke up around 6:30 doused in sour pasta, it was time for Mama to call in sick. Wayne Brady just makes me feel so at peace with the world. A few ye...
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Adventure | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. We All Crave the Mystery Box. January 9, 2016. At 2:30 in the morning a few months ago, I woke up in vomit. My husband had brought our crying baby into our room sometime around 1:00 (unbeknownst to me), and at 2:30 we figured out why she was so unhappy. When, after cleaned and placed fast asleep back in her own bed, she woke up around 6:30 doused in sour pasta, it was time for Mama to call in sick. Wayne Brady just makes me feel so at peace with the world. Enter yo...
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Projects | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. I’m an idea person who has found many brilliant detail people with whom to collaborate. Here is some of our work…. Curio is a web and mobile app that allows teachers and. Administrators to discover new strategies and. Content, curate them in a personalized way,. And collaborate on new ideas with a growing. Protect Public Ed is a grassroots movement started by State Teachers of the Year from across the U.S. Courier Journal Classroom Connections. Follow Blog via Email.
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Carpe Diem | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. Start a teaching revolution. July 2, 2016. July 2, 2016. A colleague recently shared with me a Ted Talk. Teach from the textbook. It was proven to bring up test scores, they said. Test scores mean very little when it comes to showing teachers, students, and the school community how. We All Crave the Mystery Box. January 9, 2016. At 2:30 in the morning a few months ago, I woke up in vomit. My husband had brought our crying baby into our room sometime around 1:00...
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Public Schools Should Not Be Burnt Bridges | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. Public Schools Should Not Be Burnt Bridges. February 17, 2016. February 17, 2016. Most people who know me well know that I can be a bit of a hothead. If you see my hands start to fly and my accent get just a little thicker, you can pretty much bet I’m on a straight path to telling it like it is. As I’ve gotten older, though, I’ve learned to channel that–ahem– passion,. For the greater good. Public education belongs to everyone and everyone is responsible for it....
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Speak Up or Be Spoken For | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. Speak Up or Be Spoken For. January 25, 2016. That tired moment by myself spontaneously erupted into a dance party with my colleagues and illuminated for me a natural instinct teachers have always had to work in packs, not alone. What else is there to conclude other than that we need each other to thrive? We need our posse, our kindred spirits, to dance with us; otherwise, we’re just shoulder popping all alone. And many of us kept answering,. How much unharnessed ta...
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Teachers have the real power | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. Teachers have the real power. October 25, 2016. I stood in the henna tattoo line with my 4-year-old at a local festival listening to the high school girls behind me debate the merits of getting a zodiac symbol or a Chinese character. I chuckled to myself as I eavesdropped, having become very wise to teenage psychology over the past decade as a middle and high school teacher. Then something amazing happened. That’s my social studies teacher. This was a fascinating e...
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Farm School: How a teacher got schooled on the farm | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. Farm School: How a teacher got schooled on the farm. October 5, 2015. October 5, 2015. If you had asked me on a chilly, overcast Friday morning how I would have liked to spend the day, you would not have heard,. Oh, I can’t wait to scrub down. Pumpkins with vinegar with 20 fifteen-year-olds. Yet, this is exactly how I spent my Friday, and I could not have asked for a better day. I call the course. But the kids were the ones who made the point. The Price is Right.
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Why We Need to Rethink Teacher Leadership | beautifuljunkyard
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Odds and ends, bric-a-brac, and scraps. Why We Need to Rethink Teacher Leadership. October 27, 2015. October 28, 2015. There is a surprising fact about educators that most people won’t admit: We’re all control freaks. Just like every other awesome initiative in education that starts out so promising and flops face-first, I worry that the teacher leadership movement will rise quickly to the top and spiral downward just as fast as it rose. Many will attest to the fact that so many teachers are being ra...
