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After more than four decades in the classroom, I’ve observed a challenging trend: teaching has become increasingly demanding and stressful. As a senior faculty member and Learning Support Coordinator, I feel a growing responsibility to help my colleagues find creative ways to manage that anxiety and rediscover their own well-being.
Last yea...
At the beginning of winter, I take delight in the coming of the cold. I relish the darkness and welcome the holiday lights: twinkling ornaments, candles, and luminarias. I look forward to winter and am encouraged by celebrations. But as winter drags on through January and February, I become restless, listless almost. The gray sky, the sooty snow, th...
In Tree. Table. Book., Lois Lowry uses stories as a connection that sparks and sustains the friendship of two Sophies: one eleven and one eighty-eight. They are neighbors and kindred spirits. As the elderly Sophie begins to lose...
It’s February, so my mind turns to loving kindness. Sometimes when I talk to children about why they should be kind and treat each other with respect, they tune out. However, they rarely tune out when listening to a captivating story. Stories are the glue that holds their attention. Recently, I sat down with a group of second graders to talk about the impor...