by Lisa Dabbs | Feb 11, 2013 | Kindness, Posts, Teaching's Past
Today is the first day of the celebration of Random Acts of Kindness week. I’ll be sharing insights on this important movement, this week on the blog, as I salute the RAK Foundation for their commitment to use this week to show us how...
by Lisa Dabbs | Feb 7, 2013 | Posts
This week I participated with Volunteer Spot and education colleagues to produce this webinar for McGraw Hill Education. The webinar was entitled Social Media Savvy for Educators. Its purpose was to support educators, who might be new to using social media, to seek...
by Lisa Dabbs | Jan 28, 2013 | #NaBloPoMo, Posts
“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.”- Dan Zadra I do it. You do it. We all do it…we worry. Why we do it is as complex as you want to make it. Or you can simply say that to worry is human. Worry robs us of so many things, but particularly of the mind’s...
by Lisa Dabbs | Jan 19, 2013 | #NaBloPoMo, Posts
When I was a classroom teacher I was easily pulled in many directions and got caught up in way too many projects. In my eagerness to serve, I frequently volunteered to be on this committee and to chair that important group. It was easy to get lost to what really...
by Lisa Dabbs | Jan 16, 2013 | #NaBloPoMo, Posts
Today’s prompt for #NaBloPoMo is based on the initial prompt for the week: If you were a superhero, what would be your hidden superpower? In my work as a public school educator, I often wished I was a superhero able to “leap small buildings in a single...
by Lisa Dabbs | Jan 13, 2013 | #NaBloPoMo, Posts
Saving Time & Energy with Free Sign Ups by VolunteerSpot Have you ever felt like you were putting lots of time and energy into busy-work just to get to the meaningful work? Nowhere is this notion more pertinent than in the classroom. When it comes to getting...
