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An educator’s thought

2 Oct

As an educator for the past 12 years, I can’t help but feel almost exactly how this woman is feeling. We as educators do nothing but try and prove ourselves everyday and hold children to standards that are not realistic.

For all of my parents and teacher friends, we are not alone and we shouldn’t feel like we are. Continue to love and support your children and children’s teachers. We are all doing the very best we can with what we have. Sometimes it’s very little.

 

This is a great blog excerpt from a teacher and a mother on how it’s changing her son.

 

How Common Core is Slowly Changing My Child.

 

Nite

xo

Amazing quotes

21 May

Confucius quote

There are times in my job that I wonder if I have made my point or not. During my lesson of teaching Confucius, I had the students get into groups and create their own Confucius “style” quotes. We had spent a lot of time discussing his quotes, and every morning I had a different one on the whiteboard. I have to say, I am beyond impressed and proud of my students with what they have come up with.

Here they are for you to enjoy! It’s crazy how a quote from a child can make you stop and think.

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xo

Day 16~ My biggest accomplishment

17 Mar

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Day 16 is asking us to talk about our biggest accomplishment. All of the other posts I’ve read on this one has to do with their children, families, etc. Unfortunately I haven’t had the chance to have those things yet so my biggest accomplishment is a bit different.

Having grown up with my parents divorced, I feel my biggest accomplishment is turning out a healthy normal teenager and going off to college. Putting myself through college (pretty much by working many jobs and taking out loans) but also graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education with a concentration in Special Education. I then went on to live on my own (well with my sister), substitute teach for a year (making only $75/day), and then finally getting hired. Within the next four years I was able to save some money while paying for everything I needed, and purchase my own home and live there on my own. Six years later, with the economy being the way it is, I’ve been able to keep my home, have a stable job, and live a fabulous life, all while being the sole provider. There are many women (and maybe some men) who can’t or don’t know how to live on their own. I’m very proud of myself. I am currently in school again to further my degree for my job and I am continuing to pursue my dream of publishing my first children’s book. Once this happens, this will be another big accomplishment for me. My ultimate accomplishment I am most looking forward to is becoming a mom. Until then, I am enjoying making my life better for me and appreciating all of the other little accomplishments I continue to do each and every day. Remember “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

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What’s your biggest accomplishment?

xo

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Day 7~ My Dream Job

7 Mar

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My dream job. Where do I even begin. All my life I wanted to be a teacher. But also during this lifetime I always have had a love for writing and drawing or shall we just call it, the arts.

When I was growing up, I was that little girl who would help the teacher at the end of the school year and take home all of those unused dittos and ‘play’ school with them over the summer pretending to be the teacher. I also started to be around children a lot and take care of them at the age of 12. From that point on, I had many teachers have a huge impact on me and made me realize that this is what I wanted to do. I also during this time, was an art major in high school and also enrolled in an early enrollment writing class my senior year. I knew at an early age what my loves were~writing, teaching and art. I created many beautiful pieces throughout these years, which I now have hanging in my house, and I created a children’s book.

Now flashback to senior year in the year of 1996-1997, and for any of you who were around at this time, know that there weren’t many options like there are today if you were going to college. Girls either became teachers if they went to school or something to do with children, or you went into a field of Business or Communications. There was no social media, marketing wasn’t really pushed as much as it is today and basically anything having to do with computers was more in the IT field rather than the possibilities being endless like they are today. So naturally I applied to a state college, against my will, and lived at school to become a teacher. I don’t regret the decision. I made wonderful friends, whom I am like sisters with til this day, and I had some of the best experiences ever. However, I always felt like I should be doing something else.

Eleven years later, I am a teacher. I love what I do and I am very good at it. But I still feel like something is missing. I have a knack for organizing events and project managing but I also know I have a talent for writing. Being given the opportunity three years ago to start my own blog, has opened many doors for me and I couldn’t be any more grateful than I already am.

So without further ado, here are my dream jobs:

To become a professional blogger for a magazine.

To work in the fashion industry.

To become a children’s author.

Lucky for me, I have been fortunate enough to be able to do some of these things on the side, and my career as a teacher has allowed me to have the time to be able to do these things.

Currently as this moment, I have this fabulous blog thanks to Glamour Magazine for choosing me three years ago to be a Glambassador for my home state, I work for StyleWeek Northeast as the Director of Operations and remember that children’s book that I wrote in high school, I am in the process of editing it and I will be sending it off to be published this year.

Every day I put out positive thoughts and vibes that one day, my dream jobs will become a reality.

What would be your dream job?

xo

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