On Rethinking Retirement……
Today was the first day of two for professional development on Understanding by Design, or UbD. The staff at the school all has to have this training as part of our three-year plan, and I was resisting...
View Article10 Things I WILL NOT Miss About Teaching….
I will no doubt spend some time in reflection over these last 40 years in some form of public education. I found an interesting editorial I had written about 8 years ago that I will probably recreate...
View Article10 Things I WILL Miss About Teaching
While retiring is going to be a joy, there are definitely some things I am going to miss about teaching. So here goes: 1. The Kids. Even the class from H*** this year had its good moments. The kids...
View ArticleIn Retrospect – Year 2 of Retirement
I’ve been retired now for two years. Last year on the one-year anniversary I took a look at what I accomplished for the year. I was afraid of looking back on retirement and not seeing anything to show...
View ArticleRamblings for the Month……..
Evening Moon Lots of thoughts kind of rambling through the head these days, main one is that my novel IS DONE!!! (Insert happy dance!) I’ve set up a page through webnode.com to talk about various items...
View ArticleReflections….
I am attending a writing salon a couple of times a month to work more on my craft, as well as new work on book two. Here’s my reflection on the prompt “All in a Day’s Work.” My days have an interesting...
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