Category Archives: Students

Keep a Smile On!

Posted on September 22, 2012 by sutterlearn

The first full week of school runs everyone ragged, adjusting schedules, teaching routines, and learning your place in a new communal order; kids and adults.  My son must have seen this on my face from across the field during his … Continue reading →

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Classroom in a Closet

Posted on August 24, 2012 by sutterlearn

This August I had to pack my classroom up into a closet.  Last year was my first as a cross-district teacher/coach, but I left my classroom intact, expecting it to be a one-year assignment.  Having learned that God often laughs … Continue reading →

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Does May Exist?

Posted on June 3, 2012 by sutterlearn

May could be the most elusive month of the school year.  November reels from the sugar-laden rise and fall of Halloween into the shortened week of Thanksgiving.  December can feel complete or not, simply based on when the holiday break … Continue reading →

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Childlike

Posted on March 24, 2012 by sutterlearn

Once I could drive, I started taking my grandmother out for lunch every few weeks.  During one of those visits, we spoke of the difference of childlike and childish, agreeing we both wanted to maintain the former into our adult … Continue reading →

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Funding Backpacks

Posted on December 22, 2011 by sutterlearn

Paul T. Hill, of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, often has forward-thinking reform ideas that I would like to see implemented to scale.  Recently, in a paper called “School Finance in the Digital-Learning Era”, he submits an idea to … Continue reading →

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Learning Is A Process

Posted on October 6, 2011 by sutterlearn

I’ve been watching the learning process a lot lately, but I just didn’t realize it.  As some teachers I work with are learning to use a new curriculum tool, others are learning to restructure their instructional time to reteach to … Continue reading →

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Football Apologies and Thanks

Posted on September 24, 2011 by sutterlearn

To my daughter and the other eighteen daughters on your cheerleading squad, you deserve an apology.  You are learning synchronization, how to smile in a crowd, the rules of football.  You are proud to put on matching uniforms, to make … Continue reading →

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Spelling is Impotent…

Posted on May 30, 2011 by sutterlearn

Surely, I noticed the erroneous error in this title, but spellcheck didn’t!  I thought it was a clever intro to this heartwarming story direct from our classroom last week.  I sat with one of our young writers reviewing her “About … Continue reading →

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I Felt Annie There

Posted on May 15, 2011 by sutterlearn

A few weeks ago I wished for a lever as I blogged about our team’s experience during a weeklong nature trip.  The culmination of that week was a lesson on songwriting where we analyzed some of the songs we’ve learned … Continue reading →

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Earth In Good Hands

Posted on May 10, 2011 by sutterlearn

In a reading group today, I was helping two boys read through an article about floods.  The gist of their synthesizing was that the Army Corp of Engineers had to make a hard decision, to either flood 130,000 acres of … Continue reading →

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