Read Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School If You Want to Make...
Three months ago, I ran across a social media feed where a woman bemoaned the word hack saying it should be used only when talking about a terrible cough or trying to get into a computer system...
View ArticleYear in Review: 10 Most Popular Posts of 2015
In just a few days I'll mark the 4th year of my blogging journey. This year brought numerous requests for presentations on blogging with several more anticipated in 2016. No doubt these requests and my...
View ArticleFavorite Books I Read in 2015
Wrapping up another year reading a book a week, I thought I'd take the time to share reasons why the ten books listed here are my favorites from the 52 books I read in 2015. My reading this list year...
View ArticleBook a Week 2015
Cheers to another great year of reading!JanuaryNonfictionBird by Bird by Anne LamottReinventing Writing: The 9 Tools That Are Changing Writing by Vicki DavisThe Right to Literacy in Secondary Schools,...
View ArticleA few thoughts about what I read online December 27, 2015- January 4, 2016
Well over a year ago I started a series where I shared on my blog what I read online each week or two weeks. Keeping up with the links was time consuming but fun, and I was always pleasantly surprised...
View ArticleThoughts on Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in...
When two young Society women in 1916 find themselves bored with daily life in New York, they head west to Colorado to become school teachers. While they both have degrees from Smith College, neither...
View ArticleSunday Salon: What I Read Online January 5-January 24 2016
With the recent snowstorm that hit Kentucky and much of the East Coast, there's been plenty of time to curl up with our favorite books and devices for online reading. I definitely read more books...
View ArticleTrying to Change Education? Focus on Learning
In the past week I found myself feeling out of sorts professionally and wasn't exactly sure what was going on until yesterday when I had a conversation with Drew Perkins and we talked about teaching...
View ArticleSocial Studies is My Jam
You know those moments when you or your Facebook friends record the phrases your children utter? People used to record such phrases in baby books (maybe they still do), but I definitely see parents...
View ArticleUse Writing to Learn Tools for Greater Student Thinking
As the Spring semester comes to a close, I am impressed by the impact a focus on writing to learn (WTL) tools has had on the pre-service teachers in the Writing in the Content Areas course I teach at...
View ArticleTrying Out a New Blogging Platform
Hello Learning to Muse readers!I decided to try out a new blogging platform for my most recent blog post, so hop on over to Medium and read The Sun is Shining and Other Lessons I'm Learning from...
View ArticleWhy I am Returning to Teaching
School starts August 16th and for the first time in nearly 8 years, I will return to school with rosters full of students in classes I'll teach. I am scared a little and excited a lot. After holding...
View ArticleRunning and Teaching: Lessons Learned
With the first week of my return to teaching complete, I slept soundly last night and woke up feeling refreshed and ready to settle into the weekend with my family. Friends and family have been...
View Article5 Things I'm Doing in My Classroom This Year
When I was out of the classroom and working in other education settings, I met all kinds of people who have grand ideas for how to improve public education and how to make it more innovative. I read...
View Article2 Years of Running and Life Perspective 2.0
My running journey started two years ago--February 6th, 2016 to be exact. Lacing up an old pair of athletic shoes, tears streaming down my face, hurt and anger raging in my head, I raced out the front...
View ArticleThe Important Lesson I Learned When I Stayed Inside to Teach During the...
I am sometimes known for being outspoken on issues that matter to me, and without a doubt I am a huge supporter of students’ voices being heard in education. So, when I learned that I would be one of...
View ArticleThe Best Quotes from The Pursuit of Endurance by Jennifer Pharr Davis
Several years ago I read Cheryl Strayed's Wild while visiting family in Western North Carolina. My sister, Beth, an avid backpacker and hiker, told me about a woman who hiked the entire Appalachian...
View Article5 Important Lessons Learned in 2018
If this best nine image looks a bit sloppy, it’s a perfect representation of 2018. Beautiful and messy. We often showcase the best "Instagram worthy" images to represent our lives, and I would contend...
View ArticleReleasing Judgment
Standing in the hallway of my new school, on a break during a professional development day for new teachers, I listened to the nurse navigator as she relayed the news “you have cancer... I know you’re...
View ArticleTips for Recovering from Hurry Sickness
Instructions for living a life:Pay attention. Be Astonished.Tell about it.---from Mary Oliver's poem SometimesAfter a middle of the night Emergency Room visit for my son and the hurry to create sub...
View ArticleHave Fun Out There: Reflections on My First Trail Race
As the Golden Gate Trail Half-Marathon (Winter) approaches, I'm taking time to reflect on my own running journey. Three years ago this week I started running, and I thought it appropriate to reflect on...
View ArticleUp & Moving with a Physical Barometer Debate in the Classroom
Sipping our tea and coffee my teacher friend and I chatted about how our students need more access to high quality discussions and debates. I had recently wrapped up a physical barometer debate with my...
View ArticleRun the Mile You're In: My Review of the Book and Personal Anecdotes
Before I started running three short years ago, I read books and articles and watched films about runners, and I dreamed of running but didn't imagine it actually happening, until that one day when I...
View ArticleAir Force Marathon Race Recap: Running My First Marathon
Last Saturday, after 18 weeks of diligent training, I ran my first full marathon. Running 26.2 on September 21, 2019 in Dayton Ohio required perseverance, endurance, and stamina. Thankfully, the Air...
View ArticleChatting with Amy Morin, author of 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do
It’s been way too long since I’ve written in this space, but I have kept up with my daily writing practice, and even published an article on mental well-being with a couple of incredible colleagues....
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