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Permission to Pause – A Journal for Teachers
Recently I purchased a journal for teachers called Permission to Pause by Dorothy VanderJagt. To be honest, I hesitated to buy it at first. After all, can’t I just take a blank notebook and start journaling? Give myself my own permission to pause and reflect about whatever is on my mind? But I was intrigued that… Read more
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Social Media Review
Every so often I make a resolve to say “No” to some things so that I can say “Yes” to what’s truly important…to me. But despite my best intentions, I tend to get lost in the fray that is social media. Fueled by the energy of other educators, and the “fear of missing out” (FOMO),… Read more
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It’s a Perfectly Beautiful Morning
It’s a perfectly beautiful morning. Yesterday’s rain is a distant memory. It’s quiet, sunny. A day full of possibilities. I sit at my dining room table writing. And think back to the last six weeks. I had given up hope and my feelings were all tangled up in knots. My mother’s death. My slower than… Read more
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Imposter Syndrome
Have you ever experienced a situation where you procrastinated, but for a good reason? I know. I know. We rarely, if ever, procrastinate for a good reason. But I promise I had a good reason. My good reason was that I had misplaced a digital document that would make revising efficient: the feedback on the… Read more
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It’s the weather or is it?
The weather here has taken a turn. It was getting warmer and sunnier and perfect for being outside. Then, all of a sudden, a couple of days ago, the weather turned. (It feels like it turned on me! Like it targeted me for a string of low-energy-negative-attitude days.) It’s cold. It’s raining. It even snowed… Read more
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Lessons Learned
When classes were cancelled, I didn’t pay too much attention to the ever increasing posts on social media or the webinars popping up everywhere about remote learning and teaching; I’m on medical leave and don’t have a class of students at the moment. Yet, as this pandemic has continued its course and everything has become… Read more
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So. Many. Plans.
No matter how carefully we craft our plans, they sometimes go awry. Or there might be things beyond our control that just don’t cooperate with what we have in mind. Sometimes our carefully crafted plans have to be put on hold. Sometimes they need to be reworked or simply cancelled. Sometimes, we have to go… Read more
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Bruna, bailando por el mundo – Dancing Around the World by Evelyn Sanchez-Toledo – Book Review
Bruna, bailando por el mundo – Dancing Around the World by Evelyn Sanchez-Toledo Bruna, Bailando Por El Mundo – Dancing Around the World is a lovely picture book about Bruna, a little girl who on a rainy day is sad and bored because she can’t go outside to play. In the best tradition of how… Read more
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It’s Time for a Change
I’ve been on medical leave since June 2019 and before that I’d been on an extended sick leave. I kept stretching out my initial leave thinking that in a week or so I would be well enough to return to school. By the time I finally accepted that I wouldn’t be going back to work… Read more
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What’s Your Superpower?
If you could have one superpower in the classroom, what would it be and how would it help? This question was posed on Twitter a while ago. I don’t remember who posted it or even when it was shared. I just know that I immediately wrote it down as a prompt for a future blog… Read more
Elisa Waingort 