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Hi! Sorry about the break in posting. This last week has been surprisingly busy. I don't know if you ever experience times where you're so busy that it's like you're standing still and the world is rushing by without being able to stop it. And no matter how hard you work you just can't seem to get an edge on it. That's how this last week has felt for me. Some of the busyness is good. Like I'm going to Jamaica - that's a good thing. But there were so many things to get done BEFORE I could depart for Jamaica and then I was facilitating sessions and working my exhibit booth on the day and day before I left. So I had to be packed on Tuesday to depart for the sunshine on Friday. No second chances on forgetting stuff. And the whole time I have just been telling myself - stay focused, stay on task. I needed to make sure the first thing on my mind was the workshops and having quality conversations with the teachers at the convention. I wasn't allowed to ...

Happy Thursday everyone!! I trust that this week has started well for everyone. I have fallen a little behind in the posts department. I still owe everyone the debrief from last week and I have a partially written post on Effective Teaching Practices in light of the workshops that I've been facilitating at teacher conventions. I was just at the Central Alberta Teacher Convention last week and I'm heading out to do the Palliser District next week in Calgary. Admittedly I always feel nervous leading up to the workshops because my brain starts playing tricks with itself. I find myself saying..."Who do you think you are? Teaching teachers? This is their business not yours...they know more than you! You won't teach them anything . They will hate your workshops." Yikes! It looks worse and yet, more ridiculous when you see it written down. But ultimately those are just the discouraging things that our world feeds us and that maybe I've been told ...