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Realizations from My Birthday

On the morning of my 67th birthday, I realized that it was 50 years ago that I’d started Grade 13. …

A few years ago, one of my sisters said that we were all in sales. At the time, I was still teaching …

I’ve known my best friend for almost all of my life. She knows me better than my sisters do. My …

Inviting School Success Wm. W Purkey ISBN 13: 9780534028916 Publisher: Wadsworth Pub Co, …

Did you have to study Shakespeare in your high school English classes? I remember asking my English …

The truth that I AM is the context for my whole life: the basis of all the choices I make. I have …

Like all teachers, I have memories of so many things that happened over the course of my career: …

I used to have a poster on my refrigerator which read, “To be mediocre scares the hell out of me.” …

“And then I had a key moment. Do you know what that is?” “A key moment. Tell me.” “That’s the moment …