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Rediscover the Joys of Teaching
I’m blessed with the guidance and wisdom of many teachers and mentors (human and non-human). In this blog, I offer my reflections on teaching and learning in the hope of offering all types of educators guidance, wisdom, and - at the very least - hope in the complex and compelling space we call teaching/learning.
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IN:SIGHT Teachers as Mystics: Part One
May 5, 2019—Educators love to create categories and frameworks for learning, as if learning is solely contingent on structure and form. ...
May 5, 20195 min read
IN:SIGHT Embodied Teaching
Feb 26, 2019—I was recently thinking about embodied teaching. The source of my reflection is the theology course I’m taking. The class...
Feb 26, 20194 min read
IN:SIGHT Empathy Fatigue
February 7, 2019—Is empathy fatigue just another word for burnout or is there something particular about empathy fatigue that is worth...
Feb 7, 20195 min read
IN:SIGHT Thresholds of Learning
January 22, 2019—The winter solstice is a month past. The earth is no longer at its maximum tilt away from the sun in the northern...
Jan 22, 20194 min read
IN:SIGHT The Gift
December 28, 2018—This time of year lots of emotional energy, thought, and treasure goes into thinking about, acquiring, wrapping, and...
Dec 28, 20184 min read
IN:SIGHT Moral Dilemma
December 7th 2018—For many years I have experienced what I increasingly see as a moral dilemma. It leads me to ask the question should I...
Dec 7, 20185 min read
IN:SIGHT Questioning the Mirror
November 2nd, 2018—I have learned much about teaching by seeking out information and ideas from outside the field of education. The...
Nov 2, 20185 min read
IN:SIGHT Vocational Amnesia
October 19th, 2018—Frederick Buechner famously described a professional calling as “the place where your deep gladness and the world’s...
Oct 19, 20184 min read
IN:SIGHT Soul Repair
October 5th, 2018—In my previous post I drew comparisons between the moral injury that physicians and teachers experience because of the...
Oct 5, 20185 min read
IN:SIGHT Moral Injury
September 14th, 2018—It is a well-known fact that teachers are leaving the profession at increasingly higher rates. 50% of teachers...
Sep 14, 20184 min read
IN:SIGHT Classrooms as Sacred Space
August 31st, 2018—Summer is coming to a close and students from Kindergarten through graduate school are heading back to classrooms to...
Aug 31, 20184 min read
IN:SIGHT Summer’s Abundance
July 23rd, 2018—Abundance can take many forms for teachers but from my experience teachers, including myself, spend far more time trapped...
Jul 23, 20183 min read
IN:SIGHT Endings
June 8th, 2018—Marge Piercy concludes her poem “Seven of Pentacles” with an acknowledgement to endings and the rewards for work done...
Jun 8, 20183 min read
IN:SIGHT Connected
May 18, 2018—There is strong agreement among many scientists and poets that all things are connected; the human and natural world are not...
May 18, 20183 min read
IN:SIGHT Working in the Margins
May 2nd, 2018—When you struggle as a teacher, and all teachers struggle at some point in their career, who do you turn to for wisdom and...
May 2, 20183 min read
IN:SIGHT Promise and Peril
April 10th, 2018—Every year I search out the first signs of spring. I begin watching long before the snow melts or the constellation...
Apr 10, 20183 min read
IN:SIGHT Teaching as Alchemy
March 23rd, 2018—Perhaps you have heard someone say with a tone of admiration and respect that a teacher “put their heart and soul into a...
Mar 23, 20183 min read
IN:SIGHT Orthodoxy and Heresy
March 9th, 2018—How is it decided which teaching practices fall into the category of accepted (orthodoxy) and which instructional moves...
Mar 9, 20183 min read
IN:SIGHT The Head and the Heart
February 23rd, 2018—The inner-life of the teacher is a lot like an iceberg, which is to argue that the bulk of an iceberg rests below the...
Feb 23, 20184 min read
IN:SIGHT Teaching Secrets
January 26th, 2018 — “What is your secret?” A question the Prince of Lu asks Khing the master carver in the Woodcarver, a poem written...
Jan 26, 20183 min read
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