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Candidates Education Platforms
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Hello! I’m finally starting to get a bit caught up again… Balancing entering the classroom with running two blogs is a bit more time-consuming than I expected, but I think my head is above water again…
As the election gets ever closer, I thought the following links might be particularly interesting. With such [...]
Back in the (virtual) Classroom…
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Well, after a one week hiatus from LitGuides — dedicated to jumping back into the classroom — I’m excited to share a bunch of resources that I think might come in handy…
First, a little background on my week. After a much needed one year leave from teaching, I realized there were [...]
How Can I Help You?
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Now that the school year is back in full swing… and now that LitGuides has been up and running for two months…
How can I help you?
I have fifteen years experience teaching writing and literature to high schoolers and as I transition to teaching “from home” — online learning for students getting [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire
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Back from our travels… Ready to be inspired?!
How to Take Personal Responsibility
5 Playground Rules to Live by
How to Simplify Your Life… Really…
How to Avoid Arguing with your Boss
10 Ways to Create Unshakeable Confidence
Google = Stupid?
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After our recent discussions about what kiddos should/not be reading, this recent article on whether or Google is making us stupid (since we now research and read online, spasmodically, rather than using the deliberate, good, ol’ fashioned paper variety…)
From The Atlantic:
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire
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Now we’re off to Colorado… Enjoy!
Learn to Say No!
5 Ways to Escape Work Stress
7 Ways to Tackle the Multi-tasking Virus
8 Ways to Have a Productive Day
How to Create Profound and Lasting Change
Wonderful Vocab Resource List
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A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a great resource list of vocabulary sites, courtesy of Dumb Little Man. Here is a sampling of ways to improve your vocabulary:
Visuwords is an awesome visual tool to find new words and improve your vocabulary. When you look up a word in this tool, it [...]
What Adults Are (really) reading…
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After the past few weeks considering what today’s youth are reading, should be reading, and should not be reading, a couple of articles examining what (adult) bestseller lists indicate about the culture and country of those readers seemed in order. First, the current bestseller lists of the U.S. and the U.K. and More [...]
TGIF: Links to Inspire
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We are spending one of the last remaining weekends of summer at our cabin… Hope these tidbits make your day a little bit better…
How to Stay on Track
10 Ways to Find Inner Peace
5 Common Obstacles to Achieving Your Goals
How to Achieve Any Goal
Timeless Tips for Writing Well
What Kids Should Read…?
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So, after discussing what kiddos should not be reading, here’s a recent post by the Millions on what they should be reading: New York Review’s Children Classics.
Check out a sampling of which works made the cut and let me know if you agree with the NYR’s choices! (I only recognize Thurber’s [...]
