Those of you who follow this blog know that I’ve been struggling with an article revision for awhile now. Today, I finally broke down the article that I wanted to write about building an emergent professional identity as a teacher of literacy and it turns out that while I’m really excited about this article, I […]
Month: October 2014
What’s the Big Deal About (Educator) Identity?
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve written. Ironically, hours after my last entry, “Ebb & Flow,” I was involved in a minor car accident in which I totaled my car and had to really think about the balance or lack thereof in academic and personal life. So, I’ve taken a couple weeks to […]
Ebb and Flow
Today is a new day. This morning when I woke up, I was not feeling cheery and optimistic about facing this day. In fact, really what I wanted to do was sleep for most of the day, resign my service duties at work, quit the PTA and wallow in my misery. Fortunately for me, I […]
The Struggle
This post will pretty much be the opposite of the post that I wrote this morning, but it has to be written, as a record of what happens when I don’t listen to myself, when I don’t take breaks and when I don’t honor who I am, trying instead to please others or be the […]
Taking a Break
This weekend I did something that I rarely do. I listened to myself. I had planned a weekend trip away from home a few months ago. I had planned this weekend, after I submitted my Reappointment file, to celebrate my birthday and my submission. Originally, I had thought I would take a Friday to a […]
The Morning After (a blogging challenge)
Yesterday, after completing Teach Thought’s 30-day Reflective Teacher Blogging Challenge, I felt a great sense of gratification at being done and being able to return to my daily blog-free life–or at least not feeling obligated to blog each day. Then, a funny thing happened this morning. While I have plenty to grade and do and […]