MaraudingMentor

Reminded of a former student today. He used to check in via e-mail after he graduated when I was at NHS (but, with the move to OK about 4 years ago I’ve lost contact). See, Greg didn’t have ...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2017/11/12/the-student-that-got-to-me-a-ramble/

Whew!  That’s a really high brow-ish (and super long) name for what really means “we try to use EdCamp for PD in house”.  Before I get into the specifics of how we’ve built this, let me...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2017/07/31/taking-the-edcamp-idea-merging-it-for-professional-development-to-create-choose-your-own-adventure-cyoa-professional-development-for-staff/

Yesterday, I was at my local discount grocery store (because yeah, teacher). Before I had completed my perusal of the first isle, I spotted a familiar face – one of my building’s regular subs...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2017/06/23/teaching-is-a-calling-other-smarmy-excuses/

I’m a teacher with an undergraduate degree from a respected midwestern university & a master’s degree from another.  I’ve spent the majority of my career devouring professional development...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/i-thought-i-knew-what-i-was-doing/

A few weeks back, a story came across my newsfeed about Parkway School Disrict’s way of greeting students who came to collect their schedules for the current school year.  Using an old-fashion...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/1-wish-oklaed/

The following was posted on social media by my best friend & fellow teacher @lkevke. It was her gift to her son’s kindergarten teacher. Dear Mrs. *****,           We told you at conference...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2016/05/19/oh-the-feels/

In an effort to meet my chosen resolution to up my blogging for 2016, I wanted to answer an #oklaed challenge. Little did I know that the first one of 2016 would hit me right in the feels. See, I...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/oneword-community/

It’s time to stop the rhetoric, the blame games, the sleigh of hand…all that junk.  You and I each have a job to do – create a better future for the next generation & we need each other to...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/dear-legislator/

sneak peek at question for tonight:                       

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/tlap-121415-the-return-on-the-pirate/

While I don’t blog as often as I probably should, I began this site wanting a focus on the Education & Teaching titles of my life. Today I’m going to deviate from that a bit. Because today is...

https://maraudingmentor.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/not-my-usual-blog-thing/