IntLivEd

You are exactly where you need to be, at the time you needed to be here. At the start of your journey, toward the end, or anywhere in-between. You have the capability to educate your own kids. You have God-given intelligence, creativity, and strength to do so.

With all the review of current best practices, dives into educational pedagogy, and digging into the science of learning, etc. that I've done into 'modern' teaching strategies and philosophies during this masters journey - I repeatedly come back to Miss Mason. Who reflected on our role as educators over 100 years ago: "I have endeavored to call your attention to a certain undervaluing of children and undervaluing of knowledge which seem to me to mar our twentieth century ideal of education, fine as that is. If we realise that the mind and knowledge are like two members of a ball and socket joint, two limbs of a pair of scissors, fitted to each other, necessary to each other and acting only in concert, we shall understand that our function as teachers is to supply children with the rations of knowledge which they require; and that the rest, character and conduct, efficiency and ability, and, that finest quality of the citizen magnanimity, take care of themselves (Vol. 6, pg. 240)." So, spread the feast. Teach in a way that respects the student as a WHOLE person. In a way so that the student interacts directly with the subject, the book, the story, the experiment. Let them explore, discover, SEE, the wide world they live in and come to know it so they care about it, themselves, and others!

@_lovejoypeace_ Yep. The perimenopause roller coaster is a blast 🫩. And still, every monthish, I'm somehow surprised. My husband somehow gets the memo before me which is hilarious, because I truly think similar thoughts as you 🤣

This perimenopause season is a joke… One day, I'm fully convinced I'm dying, googling symptoms, repenting of everything since 2003... and then my 🔴 shows up and I'm like, "oh… so we're doing this again?" 😅 I'm not even 40 for 18 more months. I'm not even 40 for 18 more months. I'm not even 40 for 18 more months. 😆😆

There’s neuroscientific evidence that looking at beautiful things, esp. plants & pausing to take in the details can alleviate stress & lift mood. Found these in the garden just now-they’re in a pale blue Victorian ink bottle. Pause to give your brain a small rest 🧠🌿

Spring hike firsts for the season; - false buttercup buds (I think) - Aspen catkins unfurling - a blooming dandelion - bluebirds - ticks (of course) - raptors: one hawk, two eagles - and the sand hill cranes are back

@Justacoffeemom Thank you!

@intlived Congratulations!!

This weekend is for: - writing, revising, and submitting my LAST paper for my masters 🎉 - meandering on a spring firsts hike - milestone birthday planning with baking and present wrapping on the side - sunshine soaking and leisure reading

@eckiam Great idea!

unintentionally started the tradition of thrifted books as souvenirs over the last few years

@capstellium It's a humbling and exciting moment. My eldest daughter is similar. Currently, she has the knack of inspiring me to use the dictionary as she's studying biomechanics. Really, it's quite fun because now, she's teaching me.

my kid used a word I didn't know, I had to look it up and he was right and he used it correctly. I thought I had maybe 3 more years until he was smarter than me.

"Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life." ~ Seneca the Younger

@JamesAFurey So very distracting. And it's not just the walls. It's neon book bins, material cubbies that are visual overkill too. I inherited a slew of these in my resource room and I'm working to adopt wooden bookcases with the aim to get rid of the bins and store books.... On shelves!

People hate when I say it, but it's true: If your classroom looks like the Pinterest board of a Ms. Rachel wannabe, it is distracting to the students. This is particularly true for the kids with ADHD. Treating your room as an outlet for your personal expression is a selfish and immature thing to do which actually has negative impact on your students.

Brace yourselves folks. The future of assessment is here. The “prince that was promised” has finally arrived.

@men_among_ruins 🫶🏼 In our prior home, I started gardening when my middle child was 10. She grew up helping me design, plan, companion plant, harvest, etc. & by her senior year - for her science credit (we homeschooled) - she took a professional permaculture course!

The thing about raising children on a homestead is that they have planned out--fully--an herb garden and the best flowers for the pollinators. It's so much fun.

"We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it." ~ C.S. Lewis

I am going to a staff book exchange this week and I have to decide which book of mine to gift away. I can't decide! They're all friends! Yes, yes. I'll receive a book in return. But, still.

@PjPatriot68 @MrDanielBuck Thanks. I certainly don't mind the instructional time or effort curating lessons, that's why I teach 😌. And yes, there's abuses and cracks within the SpEd system. I'm trying my best to not be a cog in the system while still dotting the i's and crossing the t's

@intlived @MrDanielBuck This is not how it should be. I’m sorry you are stuck doing all the other stuff.

Under the current paradigm, special education teachers spend upwards of 80% of their time on compliance paperwork and meetings and very little timeactually teaching. Surely, there is a better way

Me: as a SpEd teacher literally innovating the intervention curriculums I use/have/have been 'gifted' in my resource room everyday to use effectively on the rails of a living Charlotte Mason educational philosophy 👇🏼

I'm day dreaming again about a 9 ft room with 12" baseboards, crown molding, light sky blue walls. Sunny. Spring breeze spilling through the cracked window and the chatter of delighted songbirds gossiping about their winter adventures filling the room. I don't have a picture. Just imagine it. That's where I would like to be writing at the moment.

@AuthorGFAllen In this season of life, my main reading diet is non-fiction with side desserts of poetry or fiction on the side.

Do you read fiction or nonfiction books?

@bebookled Wind in the Willows At times, I pull out some Father Brown mysteries

Twitter, what is a good classic novel to read in springtime?