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Please: UX my school!
Have you ever heard of Tim Brown? I hadn’t either, until I came across a TedTalk he did called Designers Think Big. That motivated me to scoot over to Amazon and purchase his book Change By Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation (Harper Business, NY, 2019). It was a stimulating read to […]
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JUST a teacher?!
I believe… the teacher-student relationship is sacred, based on trust, authenticity, acceptance and patience; each class is a sacred encounter where, when the magic of connection occurs, the miracle and wonder of learning take place; subject matter, the topics of class discussion and exchange, are sacred since they are key in enabling the student to […]
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Living the Dream, the Covid Dream!
“Wow, you’re living the dream!”, I exclaimed. “My student shot back wryly, “Yeah! The Covid Dream!” The exchange took place in a class this morning. I had just seen her husband walk by in the background getting a loaf of bread out of the freezer. My student explained that they were going to have French […]
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Wait, wait, kiss: the blurt struggle is real!
Teachers are not perfect. Even the best of us find ourselves struggling with the nasty growing slithery sensation of anxiety building up during a class. And then that awful moment, when it’s just too much and you blurt out some terribly inappropriate comment and dart off of the lesson plan path just because the discomfort […]
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One Crisis, Three Questions
Going into Week 8 of confinement, how’s the morale? I don’t know for you, but for me it’s been such a roller-coaster of emotions! Sometimes, I feel short-tempered and irritable (especially when watching the news or reading other people’s reactions to government decisions). Then I swing to frustration at not being able to go running […]
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An ESL Teacher in Quarantine
I didn’t see it coming. But then again, did anyone? The topic of the Covid19 came up in class. Or rather, the topic of how the company would react, preparing an emergency plan of action if an employee was found to be infected. We all thought it was perhaps exaggerated. We logged onto the WorldMeter […]
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Opportunity, or just an opening?
There’s a difference between an opportunity and an opening. While pondering a change of employment lately, I realized these three things: An opportunity pushes you to grow. An opening just lets you continue being as you are. An opportunity pushes you to do new things. An opening just lets you continue doing the same-old tasks […]