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becca April 20, 2022

Positive/Negative

You know that principle that says we need to hear like nine positive messages to outweigh a single negative message? My number might be higher. I’m required to send out a “Stakeholder Survey” to the parents of my students. We were all given a template (that has some not particularly helpful or useful questions on
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becca April 7, 2022

A Teacher-y Win

I needed my students to know that some of their assignments were locking and would no longer be available, so besides (just) telling them every day that this was going to happen, I emailed them all — and their parents. In the message, I told them the assignments would lock. Then I said, “If you
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becca April 5, 2022

Spring is Springing

It’s kind of like a slinky — you think it’s fun until it rolls over and gets so tangled up that there is no conceivable way to make any sense of it at all. Sunny days in the 70s, even here in the mountaintops. Then we bounce down to the 40s (which, with wind like
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becca April 4, 2022

Thoughts

Sometimes the push/pull of my faith and my heart is painful. Let me be clear: It’s NOT painful for me to love my kids. Once, several years ago when my daughter was in art school, she asked me to join her in a collaborative project. We each wrote haiku poems to each other about our
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becca March 31, 2022

Chaotic Neutral

Another month is whooshing past, Each day lasting foreverSo why are the weeks so short?Why is it so difficultTo make things happen? To make things stay?
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becca February 28, 2022

I want to remember

The sun is shining today, on this last day of February,And I want to remember. The temperatures have been frosty, and so has my attitudeBut today the light bounces off the snow. Winter lasts forever. Two forevers, and sometimes five forevers. But then, eventually, April comes. I can remeber that April comes.
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becca February 22, 2022

2/22/22

We typed it into the Google search bar. Celebrations ensued. It’s Two-sday. I love symetry.
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becca February 21, 2022

Joggles

I’m working on writing a scene in which someone jiggles a cord. And I wrote “joggles” and Word didn’t stop me. I want that to be a word. It’s a better description for cord wiggling, anyway. And it sounds cooler. “Just joggle that cord and see if it fixes the problem.” Theoretically, if Word didn’t
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