Photo by Katherine Volkovski on Unsplash Albert Einstein said, “Education is what remains after one has...
I am a writer. I have been a teacher. And as a teacher—writer or not—I found writing one of the most...
“It seems like no one cares about me! No one wants to play with me.” This was the perception Brenda shared. I...
I grew up believing that fairy tales were nonsensical time wasters. For decades, I never questioned that...
Image by Eric Michelat from Pixabay We know that our spiritual heritage and teachings and life come first....
“I told my class if they weren’t quiet at lunchtime, there would be consequences. Now I can’t think of a...
In my experience, each group of history students has at least one Mr. Why-Didn’t-They-Just question. “Why...
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Because I love books, I have a special fund designated for books to expand the library at school as well as...
Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones is the unforgettable character from Langston Hughes’s short story “Thank...
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Shouts of hilarity rang across the back yard of my cousins’ farm in...
Not a Good Day “The directions say I am supposed to find fourteen adverbs in this story,” she said. “I only...
The first time I heard about them at Teachers Week about ten years ago, I had lots of excuses for not having...
Remember. Memory. Memorial. We have a memorial service to remember someone, and come away from it thinking of...
Image by congerdesign from Pixabay Today was our first day of kindergarten. In a normal school year, we hold...
Those of you who have unloaded hay on hot day know that there is one thing that absolutely must be done...
O to be like thee… full of compassion!* As we looked at this hymn in staff devotions and thought of areas in...
The adage says, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” As conservative Anabaptists, we have traditionally...
If you put a monkey in front of a typewriter and let him type for a very long time, would he eventually...
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