Above all else, I am a teacher and a learner. Today, I’ve been reading some of my teacher candidate students’ reflections on their professional identities. In reading them, I find myself, over and over again. Earlier this morning, I also had a call with two fellow academic-mom friends outside of my field. I shared with […]
Month: August 2016
Rejection, Reflection & Integrity: Being Who I Am When No One and Everyone is Looking
So, here I am, writing about rejection again…because, well, in addition to my grant proposal, I just had an article manuscript rejected this week as well. I’m also exhausted, with a million things to do, school and daycare upheaval for my kids, and on my way home today, my tire pressure light came on. But, […]
Reframing Rejection
I mentioned briefly in yesterday’s post that a grant I recently submitted failed to make it past the first round of consideration. This was particularly disheartening given that it was a mentoring grant that I had worked hard on, pushing beyond myself to approach people that I really admire to ask if they would support me […]
We Stumble Through the Journey Together
It’s been a week. Both personally and professionally, this week has been challenging: trying to get in last minute play dates before my son started school on Wednesday; a daycare blip meaning I had both kids on my first day of classes; my son starting at a new school on a day that I taught […]
Making It Work
I am fortunate to be on a campus that has an incredible faculty technology support team and that is forward thinking in terms of active learning and technology integration. As an early adopter and tenure-line faculty, I have also been lucky to be assigned to these active learning classrooms more often than not. Sure, some […]
Investing Wisely
Today, has been a hard day. It’s been hard because of my beliefs about investing time and energy and my commitment to enacting those beliefs. Yesterday, I wrote about my introduction posts and how I seek to create community before students even enter the classroom. Part of that involves a series of activities, the introduction […]
Welcome to the New School Year
It’s the beginning of another school year–something like my 15th start of the school year as a teacher (or teacher of teachers) and my 10th start of the school year as a mother. I decided to start this school year with a 20-day blogging challenge, inspired by my friend Wes Kriessel of Santa Ana Unified School […]