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.
Thoughts on a second read-through of “Deep Work”
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”
Plan A is Plan A
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
Snap out of it
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
A Little Bit (of) Sad
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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