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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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May 5, 20195 min read
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. ...
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Feb 26, 20194 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...
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Feb 7, 20195 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...
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Jan 22, 20194 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...
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Dec 28, 20184 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...
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Dec 7, 20185 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...
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Nov 2, 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...
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Oct 19, 20184 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...
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Oct 5, 20185 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...
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Sep 14, 20184 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...
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Aug 31, 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...
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Jul 23, 20183 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...
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Jun 8, 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...
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May 18, 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...
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May 2, 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...
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Apr 10, 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...
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Mar 23, 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...
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Mar 9, 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...
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Feb 23, 20184 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...
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Jan 26, 20183 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...
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