BRAVE For 2020, my one word will be BRAVE. I want to be brave n sharing my writing, learning new things about writing, trying new types of writing. I also most importantly want to be brave in calling myself a writer to friends and colleagues. 2019 I began to embrace the idea of writing and saying "I write" but 2020 I want to be brave in saying to people "I am a writer". For most of my life, I have been writing in journals. I have written stories, song lyrics, poems and plays but these were not things I considered real writing because I was young or it was "just for fun". In this new year and new decade, I hope to boldly and bravely embrace my identity as a writer.
It's that time of year where it's getting colder and everyone is sick. The time where it's dark on the way to school and dark on the way home from school. It's where meetings and paperwork and grades seem endless. Where you are pushed to reach out to families and remind kids of grades being due soon. Today was one of those particular days where I was in a haze of fatigue and endless tasks. I had grading or coverages during preps and stayed for tutoring after school where only one student showed up. It's been a rough year filled with uncertainty and changes and difficulties, and it's only October. But one small thing made me feel better. One text "thank you for today" from a parent. I helped tutor this student and it made an impact on the student and their parent. This warmed my heart because it reminded me that ultimately this is the job. I help kids. I don't invent, implement, and produce inquiry projects for the sake of inquiry. I don't