The past 36 hours have been a humbling and humanizing journey. I left my home at 5:15 am yesterday morning for LAX to take off for the National Association for Multicultural Education 2012 Conference in Philadelphia where I was to co-present today on the work that my school community did over the loss of a […]
Month: November 2012
Monday Morning
It’s Monday morning. For many people, Monday morning generally comes with connotations of dread at the return to the school or work week, but, as a child, I looked forward to Monday mornings. I loved school and wanted to see my friends (in a time before social networking kept me connected to friends all the […]
The Importance of Rest Stops
November has been one crazy month and there’s still a week to go. I’m a teacher educator in California and I teach a curriculum design course as well as supervising student teachers this semester. This means that a lot of my students have been under pressure this month to submit designing instruction, assessment and culminating […]
What I’m Most Grateful For
Today is Thanksgiving day in the US, a time for reflection on what we are most grateful for, and since this is a professional blog, I thought I’d take a few moments to express gratitude in relation to my professional journey thus far. First and foremost, I am thankful to be able to be on […]
Just Keep Swimming
I’m just going to apologize in advance if this post reflects my current inability to clearly articulate anything. I have assessed about 20 lesson plans today and I’m exhausted. Still, this whole blogging thing is addictive and I have a lot on my mind so it’s time to attempt to write, articulate or not. What […]
My name is _______ and I’m a workaholic
“I have some crazy issues with overcommitment.” I posted this on facebook tonight to which a friend of mine who is also a professor replied with this pithy comment, “Tell me about it sister! I do the same thing. All the time. I can’t say no. When will we learn? How many mental breakdowns will […]
First Year Faculty Transitions
I’ve always believed that if you want students to do something and do it well, you, as a teacher, have to do the assignment yourself. And one of the things I have been advocating that my students (who are prospective teachers) do is to make sure that they take time out to reflect: now in […]