When I directed a high school writing lab, my favorite part of the job was working with students on their college application essays. It was challenging at first, teaching them to answer the prompts while showing their best selves in their own best words. But after I learned to ask the right questions and to […]
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Resignation
This post is long overdue; it’s taken me time to write about something I’ve wrestled with for a while. While I’ve been much blessed, these last three years have also included private struggles and challenges. One fallout of these challenges was, after over a year of contemplation and prayer, my decision to resign from my […]
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Our Hope for Tomorrow: Things Heard or Said in School
It’s a rare school day where I don’t hear or even find myself saying something that makes me laugh. Usually, I don’t write the words down and I quickly forget them, but I have accumulated a list from the few I have recorded. It probably won’t bring you any hope for tomorrow, but hopefully it […]
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Better Than Our First Drafts
The subject line in an emailed draft of a paper on Pride and Prejudice I received earlier this year read, “Sorry so late, not my best work.†Naturally, in my response I often send to students to let them know I’ve received their emails, I wrote, “Got it. Sounds promising.†Because, you know. With my […]
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Yet Again, I Still Haven’t Fallen Off the Face of the Earth
Yet again, I still haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. I may have fallen off the face of sanity, but on the upside, I appear to still be terrestrial. Here in the Island Family, we are in the middle of a three-month period where LCB and I mostly cross paths as ships in […]
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Words from Martin Luther King Jr. on Education
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. Martin Luther King Jr.