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Tracher: What are we just sitting here?
Kid: Cause you talk too fast, and I don't understand a thing you said. And you get frustrated when I say I don't get it.

Fear Teacher,
Slowing your speech down, saying the words louder and harder isn't a facilitation strategy!

My problem is, I don't want to have to teach everyday. I only want to teach when I want to.....wait, they already...nevamind!

They make sense in the kids brain. Especially if they've learned how to use them well, as a scaffold, they're a great manipulative. But that means I (the teacher) have to know them well.

I need to write a "First Days of School" updated edition. If you came through the Harry Wong era, you can also classroom.....today.....with those same principles!

Teachers NEED time to intetnalize lessons & plan for facilitation! In the contracted day!

I just want to do one more 3-year Tour of Duty in the classroom and then get back out. I know SO much more now!

Classroom Confession: I didn't teach Algebra tiles because I never understood how to use them. Now, I regret it.

Direct Instruction is dead. The teacher is carrying the cognitive load. Menu-4-1-3 is NOT teaching mathematics!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weary.

Had a rough morning listening to an ALG 1 teacher say, "it's all about the numbers. The ALG 2 & Geo teacher gon have do what they can!" He said he just needs them to pass this test. He said more...It broke my whole heart & confirmed my next move!

My New Year starts February 1. I still got some unfinished 2024 business!

Charlotte's Web

Finished my 2nd scarf! You see, i even added a cute lil leather label! By February I'll be ready to start taking orders! $45/scarf

Would you rather have a vertical mouth OR a horizontal button crack? Why?

Thanksgiving Dinner.

1. Building space for my tutoring center.
2. Large home for my mom.
3. Shave 10 years off my age but keep my wisdom/knowledge.

I want a movie, only if I can direct and produce it. I don't want my story left to interpretation.

When the Levee Broke.

I'm very candid about my past childhood experiences.

I'd have to say it's being outspoken. It's good in that I am comfortable being the dissenting voice and I'm often the one asking the difficult question or saying the thing no one else will say. It's bad in that, I often feel isolated and not supported publicly by those who express support privately.

It's important to know. Truth. Fact. Evidence.

My Life -Mary J Blige

The Greatest Love of All -George Benson

I believe similar minds tend to attract more. People tend to initially think they're opposites only later to find out they're more alike than they thought.

Feeling like I'm being taken for a fool.

Being an educator with students looking to me...

Neither.