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Susan January 10, 2019

The Responsibility of Freedom

There are so many stories I could tell about the things I observed and heard within the walls of my classroom over the last three decades. The first half of my career, I taught high schoolers but I have spent my second half with middle school kids. When people ask me what grade I teach,
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Susan January 3, 2019

An Epidemic of Entitlement

“Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.” ― Criss Jami I have worked with teens and preteens for over 30 years and part of the reason I have done
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Susan December 20, 2018

Creativity Gives You An Edge

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”     – Ayn Rand When I look back on Christmas in my childhood, I remember the year I received my very favorite Christmas present ever. Under the tree was a flat wrapped box I discovered was full of 120crayons
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Susan December 13, 2018

The Power of Brokenness and How to Recover

Growing up, my siblings and I did some stupid things. We jumped ramps made of brinks and a bowed piece of plywood. We played “chicken” with firecrackers, lighting them and seeing who would hold them the longest before throwing them up in the air. We played tackle football in the road that ran in front
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Susan December 6, 2018

How to Have a Good Attitude, No Matter What Comes Your Way.

Bad things happen to everyone. Sooner or later, you’ll wake up to a day that will change your life forever. It may be a death in the family, a grim diagnosis, a secret uncovered. When I see others in these situations, I sometimes chuckle, as if to say, “Why are you surprised this has happened?”
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Susan November 29, 2018

Zeal – Making It Work For You

I have spent more of my life working with teens and preteens than I have without them. I have laughed, cried, fought with, defended, argued and loved my way through 33 plus years with “my kids.” I’ve learned a lot about this age group and one of them is, if you use the right approach,
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Susan November 22, 2018

The Good and Bad of Yielding to Others

I have had the privilege of traveling some in my life. When I counted the other day, I was surprised that I have visited 10 countries outside U.S. soil. Experiencing life in the culture of a foreign country is fascinating and I could write of many unusual things that happened in my travels but I
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Susan November 15, 2018

Xenodochy: The Lost Art of Hospitality

As a teacher of over three decades, there are several things I have noticed that have changed with kids through the years. Though children of the 21st century enjoy multiple advancements in the way our world operates and communicates, many come to school without training in the basics of life. As a middle school teacher
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Susan November 8, 2018

Whining Does Not Work. Here’s What Does.

My middle school students both delight and frustrate me; on any day, they pour out a portion of each in my classroom. One day, as we were studying about Michelangelo’s art, a student raised her hand and asked, “What did he paint on the other fifteen chapels?” On another day, we were reading about elephants
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Susan November 1, 2018

Value: The Economics of Self

Through the years, prices on all kinds of commodities have fluctuated. Early in my life, gasoline sold for 30 cents per gallon and in my teens, it went up to $1.19 a gallon. It’s obvious how much the price has gone up when we roll into a filling station. The value of many things fluctuates
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