Tag: teaching
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Teaching is a work of heart
Teaching is a work of heartA “never finished, always start”A tough begin no end in sightWhere darkness turns to marvelous lightWhere night and chaos fade awayIlluminated by some dayWhen it clicks and they say to me“I once was blind, but now I see”From start to finish and restartTeaching is a pure work of heart.Kisha GreatJoy…
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When lockdowns happen at schools
Yesterday, we had an actual lockdown. Not a drill—lockdown. What does this mean? It means that my entire class of students sat on the floor waiting for someone to give the all clear. It means that because I ran out of my house a different way, I forgot my keys and my door was perpetually…
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Restoration Threads — What NOT to do for opening activities (a lesson in equity/inclusion)
As teachers start the school year, I want to just share this reminder that popped up in my feed. Restoration Threads (a now closed nonprofit—visit their still open instagram) serviced foster kids. This post was very much an excellent eye opening moment for teachers to remember that not all kids are in a happy place,…
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Everybody Can’t Teach – The Fivefold Operation
TEACHING is the art of DISCIPLING. There is a difference between preaching and teaching. You can be a great preacher and suck at teaching—and that’s ok. #stayinyourlane I can say to you unequivocally that while you can be taught the theories and skills (pedagogy) of teaching? What you cannot do is replicate the gift to…
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Parents: Let kids be kids
Word of truth: the world is plenty adept at taking the childhood of young black and brown children away, making them grow up before their time. Don’t add to that. Let kids be kids. Remind them to do kid stuff. Force them to enjoy being children. Keep your adult problems to yourself. Half the issues…
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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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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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Study Buddy: How God Took a Quirk & Made It My Life’s Work
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV If I don’t do nothing else, I’m GONE STUDY to show myself approved. I have always been effectively slower than everybody else at everything else because I just always want…
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