If you are an educator, you have heard of Achievement Gap, in banking and economics there is the Economic Gap, and there are multiple different types of gaps to describe economic conditions in the stock market, and I’m am sure there are other gaps out there…descriptors used to describe a state of being, where a Gap exists between high and low. In schools achievement gap is used to describe the difference between a cluster of high performance and low performance with regard to student outcomes. Often this measure is used to rate, or define a school. But there is another…
Parenting growing pains
Anybody who tells you parenting is easy is lying. Parent IS a verb. No matter what age and stage your child is at, if you are actively parenting you are physically or emotionally tired….sometimes both. One thing I will say is that parenting teenagers today is very different from when I was parenting my teenagers 10 years ago. How is that even possible? It has only been one measly decade!!! It is a different world we live in from ten years ago. The fifteen year old boy I had 10 years ago was in a very different place emotionally and…
Happy New Year…wait where did last year go??
In the next week, we will ring in 2020…but I’m still wondering where 2019 went! I swear this year just flew by…and maybe it was a case of time flies when you are having fun, but it still went by too quickly, and I’m not sure I’m ready for 2020. Highlights from 2019 The year in sports….middle and high school sports that is! Wrestling is always a favorite and you can tell by my loud mom voice on my Facebook videos. I have to say this year, I really enjoyed football season. This was Jake’s first year playing football. He…
Not Your Ordinary Dickens Story
As we progress through the season of Merry Hallowthankmas…we are at Christmas, and every mall is in full Holiday decor with festive holiday music playing in the background, Holiday commercials enticing shoppers are on every channel, and everyday I have a new sale in my email inbox. My snail mail box is stuffed with holiday catalogs. Ahhhh…consumerism. In an elementary school this is a hard time of year. Kids are making their lists and sending their letters to Santa. For some kids, this is a time of shopping, present wrapping and anticipation. And for others this is a time of…