Category: Teacher Tuesdays
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Skill versus Will: How Lack of Discipline Mimics Disobedience
Being undisciplined is often interpreted as disobedience. One is a lack of action; the other is a lack of submission of your will. Bishop Dale C. Bronner My friend Eboney used to always ask me a riddle when I was in my bag about something. She’s say, “Who is more right? Or who is wrong? […]
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Let Kids Be Kids
Newspapers often print negative stories of the lives of black children murdered–as though ONLY black teenagers do wrong stuff, as though those one or two instances tell you everything about who they are. News flash: black kids are kids, too. All teenagers do rotten things–they are impulsive, flighty, and otherwise silly. If they published every […]
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Consequences are consequences
“Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.” Proverbs 22:8 So this kid acted an ENTIRE fool one day when escorted into my lunch detention setting. As he ranted and raved, I quietly explained to him that everyone gets ONE WARNING; after that, I’d add on extra days for […]
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Quiet Success
I was drinking some coffee, preparing to work on teacher stuff so I’m not sure what to count this as… hmmm. Well. Just real quick: it is better to not allow your left hand to know what your right hand is doing. Silence works wonders for people with vision. There are some who would abort […]
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Every Teacher You Know Has Thought About It (or, what a WAY to end the school year)
Every one of us. The thought is just about as American as apple pie, as the slavery and murderous tendencies that make up the blood and bone of this nation’s historical skeleton. Is this the day my school gets shot up? At this point, we simply expect it, another unfair, unkind weight dropped on our […]
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Math is a Mindset
Everybody hated math until their paycheck looks funny 😶 now y’all know calculus 🫢. 🤔🤔🤔 Rachel Austin, Facebook Maybe you heard your parents say, “I’m not good at math! Nobody in my family is good at math!” Or you may have even heard a teacher say, “Oh I was never any good at math.” And […]
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Lesson on Leadership: Vision-casting Matters
When a leader says “None of” or “nobody” wants to follow their vision? That’s a red flag for me. What are you asking them to follow? Is the vision written and plain so folks can run or are you just flying by the seat of your pants, lying on the Holy Ghost? Are the steps […]
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3 Things You Should Never Say to a Grown Person
This is meant to be funny with a truth embedded inside it. So hold ya drawers along with your offense. 😘