Starting as a piano teacher in a music store at age 14, I’ve now been involved in this beautiful, and sometimes messy, business of education for over 20 years.
Goodreads review of Cal Newport’s Deep Work here. Spend enough time in a state of frenetic shallowness and you permanently reduce your capacity to perform deep work. Cal Newport This quote in and of itself is quite alarmist, and the … Continue reading Thoughts on a second read-through of “Deep Work”
In a one-on-one session with a student today, these literal words came out of my mouth: “Bear with me with biology; it’s been 20 years since I’ve had this class.” (For the record, I teach ESOL but a student came … Continue reading Plan A is Plan A
The world is at a fever pitch right now. Everything is heightened, stressed, tenuous, uncertain. Almost anything could be the straw that broke the camel’s back, as it were. Everyday I resist the urge to actively look for said straw. … Continue reading Snap out of it
Today during a lesson with a newcomer student, she and I were chatting in Spanish and she said that I seemed a little sad to her. I told her, I was a little tired actually. And in her sweet Honduran … Continue reading A Little Bit (of) Sad
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