The following is an excerpt from the latest Dave Ramsey newsletter I got. This thanksgiving I would like to give thanks for the people out there who give of themselves and often do net recieve anything in return. Happy Thanksgiving!
“Thank the Thankless Jobs
There are many roles and professions in our society that are terribly underappreciated. [...]

Maybe I should just go work at Burger King. This has been my “little voice” all day today. I’m not trying to have low self-esteem or anything, but I m feeling defeated for sure.  Motivation has always been my standard answer on interviews for the question “What is your greatest weakness?” I just can’t seem [...]

Started teaching the first of my Backwards Designed units today (How to Blues- 5th grade) and I thought I’d reflect on the experience. Up ’til now I’ve just been puttering along, re-designing each “unit”(or rather set of fun, but otherwise meaningless, activities) that I have scrapped together and taught since the beginning of the year. [...]

For the past two months I have undergone extensive training in “Backwards Design” using the principles of Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe. It has revolutionized the way that I have thought about planning for understanding rather than planning “activities” and thematic units “just because they are fun and cool”. I have [...]