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Weekly Wins 2024A: Week 1
Things don’t always go exactly as planned. You make adjustments as best you can, but sometimes it feels like you’re hanging on by your fingertips. Image via Wikimedia Commons...
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Weekly Wishes 2024A: Week 2
Creative Commons license via Wikimedia Commons; photographer Anna Maj Michelson. In addition to last week’s delayed start and lost day, we’re off Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but school has...
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Looking Back: “Priorities”
My “priorities” statement at my desk My 2023 Word for the Year was “Priorities.” Teaching is a profession that can be exhausting and overwhelming. There is always, ALWAYS more that you could do. And...
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Weekly Wins 2024A: Week 2
This week has been a challenge. We only went to school Thursday and Friday, and we had a delayed start both days. This meant that my morning classes were half the length of my afternoon classes –...
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Weekly Wishes 2024A: Week 3
I’m REALLY hoping that this week will go smoothly. We have missed SO much school and I’m having to re-re-re-arrange everything so that I don’t end up running out of time in the middle of a unit at the...
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Weekly Wins 2024A: Week 3
Made it through the week, but I feel like I’ve been running from one thing to the next the entire time. So, how did I do? Audition Monday. Tutoring after school Tuesday. Edit & print Waiting for...
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Weekly Wishes 2024A: Week 4
It feels like every day I have to roll out of bed and start sprinting. There’s too much to do, and not enough time to get everything done. Here’s what I’ve been working on this week: Pick up W2s...
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Weekly Wins 2024A: Weeks 4-5
I hate that this is starting to feel like just another chore. So I’m going to try a different angle: at the start of the week, I’ll post some ideas about what I’m looking forward to, and at the end of...
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Weekly Wishes 2024A: Week 6
Finding something to look forward to is really difficult. I don’t know if that’s a symptom of depression, or what. I don’t really feel like there’s much to get excited about. There’s definitely stuff...
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Finding out that I’m likely going to be teaching a completely different set of courses next year has reduced the desire to keep track of what I’m doing with the courses I have currently. If things go...
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