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I remember when my friend Emma was gifted with her first classroom. She was beyond thrilled, just glowing with anticipation. She told me how her mind reeled with hundreds of ideas for teaching, decorating, procedures, organization—everything involved with the basic care and teaching of young ones. Emma, like many of us, began her career in…
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“Know you what it is to be a child…It is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear, it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into…
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Time stood still and all else faded as I gazed at my newborn son. After 3 years of trying to get pregnant, 24 hours of incredibly painful natural childbirth that almost ended in tragedy for us both, and decades of dreaming of a child, here he was: perfect, precious, and beautiful. As I recovered from…
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Years ago I struggled with differentiating for my 25 children. I taught 4th grade but purchased classroom materials for 3rd, 5th, and sometimes 2nd grade. As we all know, children come to us with varying abilities and in a multitude of developmental stages. Just because we teach 5th or 4th or 3rd grade doesn’t mean…
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I’m going to ask you a question and I want you to be completely honest here. It may be difficult to answer. Okay, here’s the question…are you ready? Do you ever run around your room like a chicken with your head cut off? I’m serious here. I know when I have a few minutes of…
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