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On Paying Attention
Tricia Lott Williford
March 3, 2025
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In my class, we are reading Bridge to Terabithia, one of my favorite books in the history of ever. Today,…
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On Cooking
Tricia Lott Williford
December 28, 2024
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“I do not cook,” I have often said in the last couple of years. I allowed that this could be…
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Snow Day
Tricia Lott Williford
November 7, 2024
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Snow day, slow day. Don’t-get-up-and-go day. Snow day, slow day. Leave-me-happily-alone-day. Snow day, slow day. Just-give-me-my-books day. Snow day, slow…
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Bad Days and Good Stories
Tricia Lott Williford
May 24, 2024
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I have this weekly time with my students that we call Wisdom from Mrs. Heyer. I have told them, there…
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To Be Part of the Song
Tricia Lott Williford
April 21, 2024
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Today I read an essay about a monk in a monastery, who, when asked why he was a monk, said,…
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Elf On The Shelf: I Did Not See That Coming
Tricia Lott Williford
December 7, 2023
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Do a quick Pinterest search for the Elf on the Shelf, and you’ll find headlines like these: 75 easy ideas…
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There’s Always One
Tricia Lott Williford
August 5, 2023
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I have a collection of letters from recent fourth graders, full of advice and well wishes for a new school…
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This Mom, Other Moms, Shining Stars and State Testing
Tricia Lott Williford
March 26, 2023
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“Mom, can you opt us out of the state testing?” “Why?” “Because some other moms are doing that.” “Maybe they…
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That’s Not Everything About Her
Tricia Lott Williford
February 14, 2023
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We had just introduced ourselves, this group of people who would share the day together. They’re somewhere in between learning…
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Names I Can’t Say Yet
Tricia Lott Williford
February 10, 2023
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I have students whose names I cannot pronounce yet. I’ve never learned how to read these collections of letters. When…
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Once A Teacher, Always a Teacher.
Tricia Lott Williford
February 5, 2023
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It’s been seventeen years since I was in the classroom. A few things have changed. The shoes I’m willing to…
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The Champions of December: A Love Note to the Teachers
Tricia Lott Williford
December 13, 2022
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Let’s talk about who’s really killing it during the month of December: The Teachers. They’re planning units that are the…
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A Word to Graduates
Tricia Lott Williford
May 26, 2021
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Middle School is officially in the rearview mirror. Everybody finished, everybody survived, and I don’t just mean the eighth graders.…
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School is In Session
Tricia Lott Williford
February 9, 2021
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I took my children to school today. It felt gloriously normal, like muscles that have ached to be stretched. It’s…
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Front Lines and Finish Lines
Tricia Lott Williford
May 18, 2020
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This is the final week of distance learning, a household term that nobody knew three months ago. This week, we…
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So Much “Leisure Time”
Tricia Lott Williford
May 1, 2020
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Back when I was navigating the long days with little people, some researchers endeared themselves to me with a released…
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The Sadness is Real: An Open Letter to the Teachers
Tricia Lott Williford
March 19, 2020
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“What’s keeping you awake at night?” A friend of mine asks this question when she wants to get the to…
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The Stages of The Carpool Lane, and also I Wrote a New Book
Tricia Lott Williford
August 24, 2018
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The carpool lane might be one of the world’s best arguments for homeschooling. If there’s one thing that most consistently…
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Middle-School-Cafeteria Confidence
Tricia Lott Williford
January 26, 2018
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Well, I’m about to be a Middle School Parent. We went to the Parents’ Information Night this week, to dip…
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The Tiniest Speck of the Strangest Something
Tricia Lott Williford
September 26, 2015
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The very strangest thing happened this morning. My sweet Aunt Janet is in town, and she asked about the next…
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