HeyJaredEduCoach by Jo Lein
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About Three Feet (opens the original)
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“Miss, are you Christian?”We are checking her blood sugar.I don’t remember exactly how we got from blood sugar to Jesus, but this is middle school, so I’m not sure that matters.A few hours later, another girl catches me in the hallway. “Girl, your outfit is teeeee.”I assume this is positive. I accept the compliment.Then there is the girl who has spent the first month of school turning relatively minor interpersonal conflicts into events requiring multiple adults. This week, she didn’t. “You didn
You Have to Start Cleaning to Find the Dirt (opens the original)
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I cleaned my car today.This is noteworthy because, generally, I do not clean my car.But my back was hurting from being hunched over PowerSchool for too long, and it genuinely needed to be done.My husband always says, “The condition of a person’s car is like the condition of their mind.”Shit. I’m screwed.So I threw on a shirt that made me smile because apparently my entire orientation toward life is determined by my outfit choices these days, and I walked out into the 89-degree Tulsa heat to clea
Caring Is Not Binary (opens the original)
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They just don’t care.We hear it in schools all the time, usually after a hard class, a frustrating conversation, or one too many blank assignments.I get why we say it. I thought it this week.I am in charge of coverage at my school, which might actually be the worst job in the building. Every morning comes with a low-grade anxiety about who is out, which absence was picked up, which one wasn’t, and where the next lapse in adult supervision is going to appear. If a classroom suddenly has no adult,
Punishment Happens After the Punch (opens the original)
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This week, I asked our families to talk to their kids about fighting.Basically: Help us out here. Talk to your kid. Remind them that walking away is an option. Getting an adult is an option. Going home without a suspension is also, generally speaking, a pretty solid option.<sou
I Spent 139 Days Trying to Get Dolly Parton to Follow Me. Here’s What I Learned. (opens the original)
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I’m sitting in Booth 26 at Panera trying to figure out what the hell to say about Dolly Parton.She died this week.Which, frankly, feels like terrible timing.It’s also the second week of school, and this week more middle schoolers than I can count have looked me directly in the face and told me: “I don’t like to read.” Dolly would have been so disappointed. I went to yoga this morning and cried about that. I keep thinking about what has to happen to a child before they decide, at twelve years old
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