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"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." -- John Gardner

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Crafting Professional Autonomy for Teachers

For the four years I’ve been teaching, I have been a member of the Virginia Education Association, but I haven’t taken an active role despi...

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Is Bad Coffee the Problem with PD?

In class, we were challenged to think about experiences that have made us successful teachers after watching this TEDx talk . I suppose tha...

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Standards and Evaluation

I’m thinking a lot about some teachers who struggle how to teach persuasive writing. These teachers, who teach primarily low-achieving stud...

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Collegial Leaders

In my introduction to supervision class, we learned about a leadership continuum within schools: directive, collaborative, and collegial. ...

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Long Time, No Teach

Hello, readers! As I've settled into a program at UVA to earn my administration and supervision certificate, I've really let this bl...

Monday, September 22, 2014

This I Believe

For the past several months, I've been lucky to be part of the Central Virginia Writers' Project. At our two-week seminar this summ...

Monday, September 15, 2014

Beating Burnout - Part Three

Have you ever heard of the April Sours? I hadn’t until this year when I got them big time. A blog post I shared then helped me shake them o...

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