When students get angry I sometimes let them break my pencils while taking deep breaths in their nose and out of their mouths. I ask them to break it as much as they can until they feel calmer. Today I placed this kiddos broken pencil in a bowl until he visited again later in the […]
As a daughter, I can and will always choose to forgive.As a mother, I often struggle to understand.As a human I am desperate for change. I never asked to be a survivor of childhood trauma, abuse, and neglect. I didn’t want to be a homeless youth or a “pull up those bootstraps girl”. I survived […]
Something about this is keeping me awake. Maybe it’s that the test developers made this an answer choice. Maybe it’s that a kid that doesn’t always like reading showed proof he is reading. Maybe it’s that success is subjective and we truly cannot measure another humans success by our own bias standards. Did you do […]
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