I came across this meme a couple days ago, and I felt this all the way to my core. All my mom friends liked and loved it and my husband commented, “so true, I’m sick of figuring out dinner”. Ok ladies….. every.ounce.of.self.control.I.have not to explain the error to this thinking. Because here is the thing: For men, figuring out dinner entails either calling ahead and picking up pizza or tacos, or buying pot pies from the meat market. (I won’t lie….those are life). Now I realize this is a generalization….but in general…you get what I’m saying. Women on the other…
….With Liberty and Justice for ALL: Not Just a Level Playing Field
As I’m scrolling Facebook this meme came up. I’ve seen the equality/equity version of this and referenced it many times in thinking about my students receiving accommodations and modifications under an IEP of 504 plan or an English language acquisition plan, but this meme, which includes the social justice element really hits home. I remember being in Hermosillo Mexico with my family and being in the mercados. I remember seeing large families buying new shoes for their children, shiny patent leather for the girls, and sturdy brown loafers for the boys. And then I remember seeing large families, with their…
You Don’t Know What You Know Until You Know It….Lessons Learned After the Test
This is topic that has been on my mind for a while now….and it started with a message I recieved several years back from a former student. The story starts in the early 2000’s, back when DARE was a thing in schools. If DARE was before your time, the gist of it was that one week a year called Red Ribbon Week, the local police departments would come into the schools and give the DARE presentation about how to “Just Say No’ to drugs. All the kids would make a committment to “Just Say No’, and they would learn about…
Lessons Learned in the Principal’s Office During a Pandemic
This has been a year for the books. The whole world will agree, we have been through a lot collectively this year. While some professional fields worked twice as hard doing the job they always do, some professional fields had to take additional risks with their own health and safety to get their jobs done. Some professional fields shut down and stopped in their tracks, and some moved offices into their spare bedrooms and set up offices at their dining tables. And then you have teachers….who had to completely redefine what the design and delivery of instruction looks like. They…
Raising the kinds of kids people enjoy being around
Do you remember when you were a young adult and you would see kids acting up, and you would think to yourself (or say out loud as one of my kids did) ‘My kids are never going to act that way’. And then in adulthood and parenthood you realize that is way easier said than done? You realize that there are some behaviors you have zero control over, like the overtired toddler I the grocery store who has had ENOUGH….and there are some things you do have control over, like how your children interact with and treat others as a…