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Cooking makes me happy. If you like food pics? I h

Cooking makes me happy.
If you like food pics?
I hope my baked barbeque chicken, potato casserole and green beans makes you smile.
I am going to do some cooking, some curriculum and some chillin' today.
Lament and healing is cyclical.
Part of my healing today will be to do what makes me happy.

Definition: (of a person) lonely and abandoned, es

Definition:
(of a person) lonely and abandoned, especially through someone's death or departure.
#georgefloyd
#blacklivesmatter

@tiplerteaches blessed us on today, y'all. I woke

@tiplerteaches blessed us on today, y'all.
I woke up to this digital image in my inbox and immediately showed Chris! 🥰😭
We LOVE it!
It was so thoughtful of you, Megan!
This was so special!
I mean!
How. Cute. Are. We. Here.
Thank you again!!!!

Teaching during a pandemic, y'all. Whew. I never t

Teaching during a pandemic, y'all.
Whew.
I never thought I'd see the day!
It's changed me for sure...but the broader implications on the craft are still developing.
A few takeaways for me:
1) Converting brick and mortar schooling into a virtual learning experience is inherently inequitable.
*Equitable ed must value parents as stakeholders. This shenaniganry was foisted on them as much as it was us. *Teachers again stood in the gap, emotionally, mentally, even physically in some cases. Learning new platforms and programs in a week...never being given a single course on the pedagogy of distance learning...yet still trying to figure out a way to make content accessible and relationships tangible.
Which leads me to point two.
2) Teachers are NOT super-human.
This toxic narrative has been proven unsustainable time and time again in this set of circumstances. As I have allowed some of my personal embrace of that construct to be stripped away, I find a new sense of self and liberation. I can just BE. I do not have to try to go above and beyond. I don't have to do more, be more. Grace for myself to manage my anxiety and hurt over this season has looked like just being present...whether that was in conversations with kids and families, or even here at home.
This whole situation has been so hard on all of us, but I refuse to allow it to not cause me to find the brilliance in myself through it.
As Christians we love the symbolism of the Resurrection, but often forget that it came AFTER Christ's experience on the cross.
I know through this I have learned new things about myself.
I have created more time to embrace creativity.
I have spent so much time reading and reconnecting with my love of it.
I have even created time to consider more about how this experience will shift how I return to school in the fall.
None of these shifts have been easy, but they will serve as a new foundation for my post-pandemic career. I believe I will be better for interrogating how to dismantle inequity more deeply and prioritize my own self-care.
If you have bandwidth to share, what have you learned from this experience?

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