So the "first week" of school is done and finally today i felt like I was teaching. My social studies class was looking into creating a definition of the word "citizen" and my other two classes were creating their own guiding principles for the class. My shortest 8th grade student thought a good class expectation would be "sit tall." After thinking about it we kept the rule. Sit tall like stand tall can be be proud of who you are and what you contribute to the class. You may be the joker, the athlete, the gamer, or the smart kid but each one of them can be proud of who they are. This 8th grade group are some of the same students who caused me a lot of stress as 7th graders, but we're all going to be sitting tall, me included.
blessed are those who are small but can sit tall.....
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Wow, nice updated photo, is it recent? Sitting tall for me means correcting a lifetime of poor posture and it takes a conscious effort or I fing myself in a slump again. But as I stride around "Tall" I am filled with a sense of pride and it is a much better reflection of how i feel inside. I certainly don't feel the age I will be in one short week.
At this writing I plan to trek back home with a little dark haired girl and her mommy for a brief get together, perhaps we will have time for a visit.
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