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Take A Break in Time for the Holiday Season

The time from Thanksgiving through Christmas break is a paradox of time.  The days blend together and fly by as the end of semester checklist is slowly completed.  But the hours seem to crawl by as you fight against commercialism, seasonal change and holiday excitement for the attention of your students.  Here are a few […]

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Use Your Holiday Break to Get Political

This summer at my first PSEA Summer Leadership Conference (our union getaway in Gettysburg, PA), I heard what was probably the most interesting speech in years. The president of Student PSEA, a college senior about to begin her student-teaching that fall, talked about politics and education. She said that, while in high school leading up […]