by Dawn | May 4, 2016 | self-improvement, Teaching
My first student turned 30 today. He wasn’t actually my student, to be fair. He might have been the hall monitor or something, because he always came to check on all of my classes. I thought he was an employee for three years. He was the only person I ever...
by Dawn | Jan 17, 2016 | Life, motivation, self-improvement, simplicity
“If I had your time…” That’s what I hear from people who don’t want to get things done. “If I had YOUR time…” Always that dark tone, sitting halfway between dismissal and envy…as if it’s somehow my fault time’s cheated them… that I’m some space-time villain who steals...
by Dawn | Dec 1, 2015 | education reform, self-improvement, Teaching
If you haven’t heard Paul Burgett’s “The Fiery Furnace” speech (here on Soundcloud) you must. It’s one of the greatest speeches of all times. I like to listen to a good speech. A good speech makes me laugh then punches me in the gut,...
by Dawn | Apr 28, 2015 | Teaching
Mr. Brown was about twenty feet tall. He had to be. He was the wrestling coach. Those were the days when a teacher could lift a kid up, turn him upside down, and shake the excuses out of him and not have anyone bat an eye–the days of the Breakfast Club and...
by Dawn | Mar 29, 2015 | education reform, Teaching
Declan gets pennies in a reward jar for not annoying me. He earned enough to get something. He asked for a Rubik’s Cube. I was the last of my friends to get the Rubik’s Cube in the 80’s. I never did learn to solve it. “Here, Mom, solve...
