Be the Light that Leads the Way to Freedom! Oskar Schindler is well known for his bravery, tenacity, and dedication because he was willing to lose all of his wealth and risk his own life in order to help roughly 1,200 Jews escape certain death in German concentration camps. Today, he and his wife Emilie, are buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion. They were named Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli government in 1993. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery. She was beaten, mentally abused, and acquired a life-long head injury from one of her various masters. Yet, Tubman began to receive premonitions from God which led her to…
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Education Is Vital
After Covid-19 hit, every student was quickly given a Chromebook, a password, and a set of written directions. The students had an extremely short period of time to learn how to work their new Chrome books. To their bewilderment, quite a few students lived beyond the point of internet service. This required the students to work out of a packet and hand in work pages weekly. Teachers were directed to take attendance, upload daily lessons, and have daily live classes. Unfortunately, they received a minimal prior explanation on how to create lessons online or how to present live lessons. Students and teachers were doing a whole lot of self-teaching. Needless…
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Our Last Day Together
It’s one of those days that happen, when later people ask you, “What were you doing the day Elvis Presley died?” or “What were you doing on September 11th, 2001?” I don’t think I will ever forget March 13th, 2020. At the time, I had no clue the impact it would have on my life or the lives of my students. It was just another day of hustle and bustle in the classroom. However, looking back on the conversations of that day, I get “chill bumps.” I remember standing in front of the classroom trying to convince my students how important it was for them to get into ”high gear”…
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How Do You Measure Success?
How do you measure your personal success? Perhaps you are only happy with yourself, if you meet the days quota at work. Success to you might mean making the most money possible in one day. For some occupations, success means arriving back home alive. Students would call an A+ on a test a success. How we measure our own success could potentially be causing us unnecessary daily stress and feelings of failure …even hopelessness. Yet, where does it all start? Each evening we go to bed with a mental checklist of things that we think we NEED to accomplish throughout the next day. Let’s imagine yours looks something like this:…
