by Matt Vaudrey | Sep 5, 2021 | Administration, Hope |
Have we met in real life? I’m usually pretty positive, and holding a positive attitude for a whole-day workshop is energizing for me, not draining. Nearly every day of my five years of meeting with teachers, someone would say, “Wow, you’ve got a lot of energy!” and it...
by Matt Vaudrey | May 23, 2019 | Adolescence, Classroom Culture, Hope |
Yesterday was Pickle’s last day of school as a kindergartener. The night before, I was folding laundry after the kids were asleep, and I heard her burst into tears. I found her sitting up in her big-kid bed weeping. Me: Pickle, what’s wrong?Pickle: *sniff* I...
by Matt Vaudrey | Mar 21, 2019 | Classroom Management, Hope, Teacher Improvement, Teaching |
I found this buried in my Google Drive this week. It’s a journal entry from 2008. Now—eleven years later—I love teaching and there are some teachers appreciate my commentary on stuff. As our teammates and friends are getting their March 15th letters, it may help...
by Matt Vaudrey | May 19, 2017 | Adolescence, Hope |
One of my favorite teachers is Alicia Saldana. She teaches some of the most needy students in the school and requests to have them every year. She sometimes shares brain-dumps with me, and it’s my privilege to learn from her. This is what she sent me recently....
by Matt Vaudrey | May 2, 2017 | Education, Hope, Teacher Improvement |
Arrogance sits at the core of traditional education. The idea that the teacher knows something and the student needs to understand it. One sees this arrogance in many traditional classrooms; an authoritarian adult keeps children in an orderly array and provides tasks...
by Matt Vaudrey | Apr 8, 2017 | Education, Hope |
There are dozens of math teachers that I admire from afar, many of whom converged on San Antonio this week for NCTM. I got to sit at the feet of these – my teacher-crushes – and hear firsthand what they may not share in print. That’s the point of conferences,...