Trust Your Ideas

“I’m worried.  Can you read this?” As a measure of how little students trust themselves and their ideas, this is the question that I got today from a thoughtful student. This summer I wrote about fear in the seventh grade classroom.  Yesterday I heard that fear in the room, I heard my voice rising in…

Fear – post 100

Well, it has taken me a while to get to my 100th post. And I am fortunate that I don’t have to wring my hands about what to write about because I recently I had a teaching epiphany while I was being a student. I have written about my yoga class before. Our teacher helps…