Teaching in a Christian school often comes with many assumptions: every student understands his faith in the same way, all families have the same goals for their children as I have for their children, God means the same to all of us. The reality is much different than that. Students make their way into my … Continue reading Advent- Anticipated Coming
As a college student, my friends and I would often play a group game called "Two Truths and a Lie". We would each write two unique facts about ourselves that would be true and one item that would be believable but not true. The purpose of the game was to get to know each other … Continue reading Two Truths and A Lie
Meet Gabby. This sweet girl entered my classroom many years ago as a timid 4th grader. We journeyed through different portions of elementary and then middle school together. Gabby, her classmates, and I all made the move to middle school together which resulted in living school life together for a total of five … Continue reading Once a Student; Always a Student
Summer has arrived and what does a teacher find herself doing? Thinking about next year! The common joke that "teachers have the summer off" if so very far from the truth. Teachers that are truly engaged in what they do, never really stop teaching. Ok- maybe I stopped thinking about teaching for the first few … Continue reading Summer of Reasoning
I have been struggling all weekend trying to determine if this is a blog entry that I should write. While my intent and goal for my blog has been to share encouragement, include classroom ideas, and challenge you in your daily walk as a teacher, I struggled to determine if this was a topic that … Continue reading When the Worst Comes True
While participating in a recent 3D Printing Conference, I started to think about how much education has changed over the past 30 years. Gone are the days of cassette tape driven listening labs. Gone are floppy disks and dust covered chalkboards. Thinking even further back into my high school and college career, I reminisced the … Continue reading Move Over Photocopier…..
Walking down my hallway recently, I overheard a peer use the phrase "no need for extra-curricular talking" as she was teaching. Not having heard the context of the phrase, I was left to wonder what had led her to create that phrase. Extra-curricular talking. Extra-curricular is defined as activities pursued outside of the normal course … Continue reading Extra-curricular Talking
Many thanks to our guest blogger (Chris Boyle Ministries) for joining us for this blog devotional. Be sure to check out his blog for many other amazing devotionals. Stacy asked me to write an entry for her blog “Educating with a Purpose”. I decided to play off of her title with “Learning with a Purpose” … Continue reading Learning With A Purpose
Teaching is often defined as "the occupation, profession, or work of a teacher." As a teacher, I have often felt that this is not a definition that even comes close to explaining what I do each day in my classroom. The creator of that definition should come and spend a day with any teacher, and … Continue reading Teacher Defined
Lost fathers...Ugly stepsisters...Fairy godmothers...How often do we wish for a fairytale ending to overtake our lives and become our reality? We all have circumstances that create an "ugly stepsister" in our lives. Sometimes these "stepsisters" come in the form of a career that has taken a turn for the worst, a marriage that has fallen … Continue reading Living in a Glass Slipper World
Teaching Beyond the Norm 