by Lisa Maples | Apr 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
And just like that… it was time to watch my children finish one grade and launch into the next. Only this time, my oldest child was going to high school. The youngest will be finishing elementary school next year. Last week, my oldest child, my husband...
by Lisa Maples | Apr 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Did you ever stop and think? This question was posed to my class today. After reading a poem about the Earth and how humans have negatively affected the Earth, a child intently asked us, “Did you ever stop and think about what we are doing?” This moment...
by Lisa Maples | Mar 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
Drama in Middle School is a given. Hard working, dedicated, expressive, amazing students in Honors Drama, put “drama” in a category of Art! I am celebrating some amazing middle school students and their Drama performance at the state Theater Conference....
by Lisa Maples | Mar 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dizziness. It’s a bad place. It’s a place filled with “what if” and “when will it stop?” moments. For the last few days, I developed a dizziness accompanied with nausea right on the heels of a sinus infection and a throw up virus. So today, the world became steady...
by Lisa Maples | Mar 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
Tonight as I was cooking dinner, I snacked on raw broccoli. The smell of it sent me back decades ago when my mother would cut up raw cabbage to snack on while she was cooking dinner. Suddenly, I remembered those moments of the brisk and flavorful raw cabbage...
by Lisa Maples | Jan 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Today I boldly walked into an office at my school to speak with three Administrators. I wanted to tell them how I had solved a problem which had made less work for them. They were all so pleased with my solution. On other days, I have walked into their offices...
