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Worth your time to read
A few good reads to kick off your week. One should never approach Monday without a good read around. To kick off, this piece by Kutter Callaway of Fuller Seminary really hit home with me today when I read it in a back issue of Fuller Magazine that we got at work a few months…
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Not even a nutshell
Hamlet: To me [Denmark] is a prison. Rosencrantz: Why then your ambition makes it one. ‘Tis too narrow for your mind. Hamlet: O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams. Guildenstern: Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very…
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Letter to a Young High School Teacher | Comment Magazine
We teach who we are. Teaching isn’t as much about the what as it is about the who – who you are as a teacher is communicated more thoroughly than any ‘content’ in the lesson plan. Source: Letter to a Young High School Teacher | Comment Magazine This is a great read. Had to share.…
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Hugo 2016 wrap-up
Here are the winners of the 2016 Hugo Awards | The Verge Thrilled that my top picks (or #2 pick, in one case) in the major categories for the Hugo were awarded top honors yesterday. Especially thrilled that good writing came out on top, from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds and cultures. Please go…
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Why I mentor
As an exercise to wrap up the training this week, I’m supposed to draft my personal mission statement / elevator speech explanation of why I mentor at WGU. I’m an educator. It’s what I do. It’s what I am. When I was a kid, I used to pretend sometimes that I was a teacher, and…
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