I so appreciate Marquez’s tangible tips and her creativity- everything a young teacher like me loves. The author of the creative classroom of my dreams. #5 Teach Create Motivate podcast by Ashley Marquez. The 10 minute length makes her podcasts ideal for the little amount of down-time we teachers have □. #4 10 Minute Teacher podcast by Vicki Davis Davis answers questions in her short podcasts that I didn’t even know I needed to ask. Definitely reaching for my own “Virtual Teacher” wine glass while laughing along with these ladies! Totally anonymous and hilarious- these teachers reveal the nitty gritty of the classroom and I am here □□ for □□ it □□. They are super authentic in this new podcast- posting an engaging conversation every Monday about what it’s REALLY like to be an educator and how to thrive in and out of the classroom. The literal King and Queen of student engagement in education. Siebold is a vet teacher and this podcast cracks me up every morning! Definitely awesome to listen to whether it’s your first or 20th year in the classroom. ![]() Not going to lie- this podcast has made its way into my morning routine lol. #1 Crying in My Car: A Podcast for Teachers by Devin Siebold and Co-host Mike Lee. Here are my top 5 education-related podcasts I’ve been into: ![]() It has helped me foster some new habits though! While I may or may not sleep in as late as humanly possible before I clock in, I’ve made it a habit to listen to an uplifting podcast while I’m sipping my coffee and getting ready I’m the mornings. One of the best chroniclers of sisterhood returns with a funny, moving novel of loss and love.Hello there, reader! If you’re like me, working from home has definitely not slowed down your high-stress weekly workload. This is the first novel in 15 years from Alvarez ( How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, 1991, etc.), and she builds on one of her strengths, depicting the complex relationships among sisters. Her main character is Antonia Vega, who, as the story begins, is stunned with grief. A year before, she and her husband, Sam, were driving separately to a restaurant dinner near their Vermont home to celebrate her retirement when he suffered a fatal aneurysm. Bereft of a beloved spouse and done with a rewarding career as a college professor and novelist, she’s adrift and “has withdrawn from every narrative, including the ones she makes up for sale.” Then need comes knocking in the form of an undocumented Mexican worker at her neighbor’s dairy farm. Sam, a doctor who was widely beloved for his volunteer work and empathy, would have done all he could, she knows: “He was the bold one.Īntonia emigrated long ago from the Dominican Republic, and young Mario seeks her help (and translation skills) in reuniting with his fiancee, Estela, who is also undocumented and stranded in Colorado. She, the reluctant activist….” In the meantime, Antonia sets off to celebrate her 66th birthday with her three sisters. The two younger ones, Tilly and Mona, are as contentious and loving as ever, Tilly a font of oddly apropos malapropisms such as “That bitch was like a wolf in cheap clothing!” But all of them are worried about their oldest sister, Izzy, a retired therapist who recently has been behaving erratically. When her phone goes dead and she fails to arrive for the party, the other sisters swing into action. Izzy’s fate will take surprising turns, as will the relationship between Mario and Estela, as Antonia tries to figure out what she can do for all of them and for herself. #JULIA ALVAREZ AHA MOMENT HOW TO#Īlvarez writes with knowing warmth about how well sisters know how to push on each other’s bruises and how powerfully they can lift each other up. ![]() In this bighearted novel, family bonds heal a woman's grief. When tragedy strikes, a mother and daughter forge a new life. Morgan felt obligated to marry her high school sweetheart, Chris, when she got pregnant with their daughter, Clara. But she secretly got along much better with Chris’ thoughtful best friend, Jonah, who was dating her sister, Jenny. Now her life as a stay-at-home parent has left her feeling empty but not ungrateful for what she has. Jonah and Jenny eventually broke up, but years later they had a one-night stand and Jenny got pregnant with their son, Elijah. Now Jonah is back in town, engaged to Jenny, and working at the local high school as Clara’s teacher. Clara dreams of being an actress and has a crush on Miller, who plans to go to film school, but her father doesn't approve. It doesn’t help that Miller already has a jealous girlfriend who stalks him via text from college. But Clara and Morgan’s home life changes radically when Chris and Jenny are killed in an accident, revealing long-buried secrets and forcing Morgan to reevaluate the life she chose when early motherhood forced her hand.
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