Singing the Sky

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The last time I had a migraine with an aura, I thought I was seeing angels. How else to explain the twinkling lights around me? This time, I was sitting at a table with my students, facing […]

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I got tagged to do 7 Things by Ms. Teacher. It was perfect timing!
The rules are:
- Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
- Share 7 random and or weird things about yourself.
- Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their […]

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What do you do when a kid doesn’t fit in? This morning, Sage told me about how he hated the game “Heads Up, Seven Up”, because no one ever called on him. He told me that it makes him feel as though he doesn’t have any friends. After school today, he told me that some […]

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I’ve been reading An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne’s Poverty Theory. Although I don’t agree with all of it, it is a fascinating read. One of the points he makes, when he is not encouraging his community to avoid all responsibility for kids in trouble is that school curriculum needs to be more Afrocentric. […]

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So I’ve been doing this meditating thing to help me go to sleep. You know, observe the thoughts…let them float by in big gobs of rainbow plasma while I refuse to engage with them. Last night, my thoughts were going like this:
My brother’s girlfriend is a liar…my mom is mad at me…I can’t sleep…it’s too […]

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I struggle constantly with the thought of whether or not I am where I am supposed to be, job-wise. I guess I am, since I’m there. Still. Yesterday, one of my kids got arrested for truancy, for crying out loud. As in, they cuffed him and paraded him out of the school in front of […]

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