Author Archives
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PUSHING FOR THE FINISH LINE
“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.” ― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West The school year is in the home stretch now. Nashville students have… Read More ›
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CLOSING THOUGHTS ON TEACHER APPRECIATION
“Some people are pretty good at hiding who they really are.” ― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood Today concludes Teacher Appreciation Week. Every year I swear I’m going to just politely smile and nod through it. Focus on… Read More ›
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TENNESSEE TEACHER APPRECIATION
“His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair,… Read More ›
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A MANCHURIAN CANIDATE
“Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.” ― Rick Bragg, The Prince of… Read More ›
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NOT EXACTLY HALCYON DAYS
“But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain.” ― Patrick Modiano, Dora Bruder Hard to believe, that it is only the end of April, and I’m already ready for this year to come… Read More ›
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HALF BAKED IDEAS, AND HIDDEN AGENDAS
“Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.” ― Norah Lofts, The Concubine Last year, the Tennessee General Assembly passed legislation that made it possible for local school board races to be partisan affairs. Locally, this year,… Read More ›
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AN EASTER MISSIVE FROM DAD GONE WILD
“Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by… Read More ›
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ONCE MORE INTO THE ECHO CHAMBER
“I don’t like a kind of workshop that is about editing–I don’t want to sit there and be an editor. I don’t want to tell someone how to “fix” a poem.” ― Natasha Trethewey It was an interesting weekend… Read More ›
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AN UNPARALLELED TENURE
“The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.” ― Vilfredo Pareto… Read More ›
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THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
“What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?” ― Greg Egan, Permutation City One of the most discussed topics in education these days is teacher attrition and the increased difficulty of retaining… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 