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Advice for New Teachers
At whatcantheyteachus.wordpress.com you can read advice given by veteran teacher, Nicole Lusiani Elliott, as well as the comments of others. This blog was started as a way to build community between students...
1 commentA Hub Farewell
It is with gratitude that I write this goodbye to hubpages and the followers who have been so generous with their kind words. This was my first public forum and, as such, it provided a foundation and a...
2 commentsLiving Butts Up
While I don’t think the good old days were all that “good,” I do think there is something to be learned from them. Our kids today have everything, and yet they often are missing a major component...
1 commentA Lesson Learned about Raising Boys by Teaching Women's Studies
A Lesson Learned in Raising Boys by Teaching Women’s Studies I am exceptionally fortunate to not only work in a profession I love with kids I adore, but also to work with easily some of the most amazing...
3 commentsGod Gave Me Sons, Teaching Gives Me Daughters
I was raised by a single mother, the first daughter of the first daughter of the first daughter of the first daughter. Many women’s shoulders on which I stand as I survey the abundance of my life, it’s a line not only vertical but horizontal....
1 comment"That" Mother
You know the one: pulling her hair out stressed, yelling at her children as they climb the shelves and pull down fruit in a way that makes it all come tumbling down. The one who lectures them in the car all...
2 commentsGentle As We Go
Gentle As We Go I read an article this morning about a conversation between Oprah and Marianne Williamson. They were discussing Oprah’s ongoing struggle with weight and what revealed itself was that it...
3 commentsmusings on marriage
There was a dead mouse on my porch this morning. This wasn’t just any dead mouse; rigor mortis had set in, his little feet up in the air turned in ways that showed his death clearly wasn’t pretty. Our...
2 commentsfixing schools from the ground up
I am a part-time high school teacher who should be going home right now to pick my own kids from school; trouble is, the school where I work is on lockdown because of a potentially violent police chase in the neighborhood. Given this fact, I have an...
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