Author: Rachel Taylor
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My “Kids”
Glorified Babysitters? It has been said, “We are just glorified babysitters,” in reference to being a teacher. This statement has been used to describe the state of education and quite honestly, it feels to be true at times. But there is one teacher specifically who has defied the foundation of this statement. Anita Jarrett possesses…
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The Prayer Spot
I always loved the start of the school year when I could get organized without the clutter of student work. For me it felt like a clean slate. A well organized and decorated classroom can go a long way with helping create a good learning environment. Most of us pin hundreds of ideas on Pinterest,…
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Warring Hearts Page
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Warring Hearts is going LIVE
https://www.facebook.com/reel/6661052867331631 I will be hosting a LIVE interview on my educator page Warring Hearts with Nila Thompson, advocat and voice for young girl. This is a 16 year old girl who is fighting battles that adults are afraid to face. Be sure to join us at 6:00 pm. Friday May 10th on my fb page.…
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Sleepless Teacher
It’s been two weeks. Two weeks since I slept through the night. I come home, fall asleep on the couch and then wake up in time for bed only to be laying wide awake. I will then resort to the couch. Mike comes to check on me and suggests I take the day off. After…
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The Principal Thing
A matter of “principal” Sometimes we get so caught up in our world, our classroom, our family, our lives, that we forget to see others around us. This couldn’t be truer for myself especially. The busier I get the more dominate my tunnel vision becomes. An example of this was during training for my 3-month…
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The Small Things
All in a Days Work… One of the dreaded duties of the teacher is the lunch duty. While it’s something that needs to be done, it’s not always the family favorite. It’s loud, crowded, and oh yeah LOUD! Kids take this lunch time and free socialization seriously. What table you sit at determines everything. At a…
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The Grammar Preacher
“Grammar Ninja“ Teaching English in Appalachia can be quite a challenge, specifically in the category of grammar. Growing up hearing things like: “I seen,” instead of “I saw,” or “We was,” instead of “We were,” is an impossibility to unhear when your ear has been trained to it. It is an impenetrable wall of generations…
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A Red Carpet Affair
The Worth of Child My 6th year of teaching has been one of my favorite years of my teaching career. I started the year in a new county and a new school. During our beginning of the year staff meeting, principal Kristina Frame began to go through our morning routine and procedures for the first…
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Game Face
The Journey continues… Looking back on my first year of teaching, it was the greatest learning experience of my young life. I was a naïve girl with lofty dreams of saving the world. A recent graduate from Fairmont State, I moved to a very rural area. I didn’t know the town of Cowen existed and…
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