Teaching
I’m standing in front of my class of 3rd graders, and my room is bulging with 40 students. They are screaming and throwing pencils, and my efforts to quiet them… Read More
Some books lure the reader in from multiple angles, and The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt is one such book for me . . . As a college professor, I… Read More
In a previous Write 6X6 season, I wrote about my teaching heroes (Teaching Inspiration En Pointe and Just a Girl in Senior English). In those essays I waxed nostalgic about teachers who… Read More
We likely all have a certain type of neurodiverse learner in our classrooms — the student with a history of childhood trauma. Whereas definitions of trauma vary and our understanding… Read More
If I were to write a letter to myself as a beginning teacher some 36 years ago, what would I say? How could I light a path forward for the… Read More
As a dutiful kindergarten teacher, I always wrote my lesson plans a week in advance. It just so happened on the schedule for September 11, 2001 was a class book… Read More
About My Love of Learning
Welcome to My Love of Learning! This blog is for everyone who can count learning as one of life’s purest joys.
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