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An Open Letter to My School Board and Superintendent
Dear Board of Education & Superintendent; I am writing to you today as an experienced city educator, a mom and as someone who holds a PhD in education. I have worked in the area for 12 years. I also teach at a college that services a large portion of our graduates. Our students enter…
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Government Mandates are Causing Speech and Language Delays in Children
What this pandemic has done is take a group of people and have given them all of the power to harm some of our most silent victims: our children. My older son was 18 months old when lock downs began. This is a pivotal time for speech and language development and it has harmed him…
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The Hart Home│Life in Pandemic Filled NJ
None of us were expecting for us to come home from Florida at the beginning of March to the world pretty much shutting down. We had taken our son to Disney World and attended my doctoral graduation. It was our first real family trip. We had also finally listed our starter home and were about…
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Trenton Makes, the World Takes: Leadership & Teaching in the Capital City
There is a saying in Trenton which states: Trenton makes, the world takes. It is a bold statement made by a city as vibrant as its diversity. It’s also something you wouldn’t know about Trenton unless you lived and worked in the area. While the statement comes from a time where Trenton was a huge…
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Ruh Roh: Doctoral Comps Meets a Big Surprise
I want to get back into my writing. I have really missed it. I also have such great ideas for things too. However, life seems to have given me other plans for a bit. After a really long summer of interning, teaching college and working full-time in a hotel to save for the wedding, I…
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Happy Halloween!
This is one of my favorite days. I love pumpkins, and the colors and the cooler temperature. I love how for one day out of the year you can be whatever you want to be. I love hearing the kids in my neighborhood running around and ringing doorbells. I love doing something special for my…
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Seasons of Your Life
Women are different then men. We think differently, we respond to the world differently, we approach life differently and more even more noticeably, we age differently. For men, I think life is a long continuous line of experiences and outcomes. They are born, they grow, they become old and they pass on. Women, of course,…
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Back to School
This summer was an absolutely crazy period of my life, so I apologize for going MIA for a little bit. I worked full time to save money for our wedding, wrote a lot of big checks to people FOR the wedding, interned at my district’s high school where I logged over 160 hours, took a…
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Finding Your Voice as an Educator
I have been teaching for about 9 years. Of that, I have been in public schools for 7 years and of that, I have taught college for 2 years. Out of all of my experiences, I have found that teaching college was the hardest because of my age. I was 29 when I became an…
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The Secret to Success as an Urban Educator
I saw a status from someone who began teaching around the time that I was deciding to commit to teaching myself. She wrote that her former students were shocked that she had had a baby and that just because she has high expectations and wasn’t a “nice” teacher doesn’t mean she wasn’t a nice person…
