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A New Year, A New Attitude: Audacious.

I tend to live inside of my own head. I think deeply, create plans, innovate, reflect, respond, and have entire conversations inside my own head. I very rarely share my ideas and thoughts outside of my own lesson plans. I do tend to overshare with my own husband, who is a middle school PE teacher currently reassigned to teach 7th grade Science and History during Covid teaching. I've been a middle school science teacher for 19 years, he's been an emergency and reluctant science teacher for 5 months....so he really just nods his head and finds any excuse to leave the conversation as soon as possible, which I can understand. 

This upcoming year, 2021, I dedicate myself to sharing more. I dedicate myself to writing, creating, publishing. This blog and website will be my little space to share all of the thoughts swirling around in my head. Therefore it is guaranteed to be messy, jump from subject to subject, be overly obsessed with science education, teaching, learning, pedagogy, and overwhelmingly filled with strong opinions.

I have been using the #oneword trend for several years to help me to focus on my goals for the upcoming year, and this year my word is AUDACIOUS (a willingness to take bold risks). This is me, being audacious. 

I'm really looking forward to 2021. 

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    Be Audacious!

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