I've changed the headline of my tumblr

For most of us ‘Merican tumblr teachers, Wednesday begins our Thanksgiving holiday.

Wednesday-Friday will therefore be Education Dare Day BONANZA. Recharge those teaching-batteries by tagging your #educhums with questions, stories, and get new ideas for your classes.

The goal? Ask a question yourself for reblogs and replies, and make a goal to answer as many as you can.  Tag them #educationdareday #edd and #educhums (because let’s face it: the actual education tag is forking worthless).

 So @artedish and I were chatting awhile back about Tumblr and the #education (now #educhum) community.

Both of us said what we miss the most is the sharing of ideas, best practices, etc. Obviously knowing each other’s lives is great, but the value of this community has often been in making me a better TEACHER. It’s been personally encouraging, but I feel a little stagnant as a teacher. 

So here is my idea for the rest of the calendar year: what if we decide to really focus on highlighting good ideas, asking for help with professional issues, really focusing on that for a bit. Not that we can’t vent about hard things, and not that people aren’t posting things like this, but can we put an emphasis on this? I really need help (in year 8) with not getting stuck. 

My neighbour wanted to meet Venus.

When I took her and Bilius up to say hello she gave them a new piggie snuggly she’d designed. She also gave them some fleece curtains she made for them.

She’s more into pink than I am, but she has 11 boars so I think she’s compensating!

Here’s some pics of them enjoying their snuggly. I’ll wait until the next total cage clean to try out the curtains.