Balance is the new mantra for my spouse and I this school year. It's too easy to spend literally hours working away on a particular mini-lesson, searching for the best resource online for social studies, or discussing until the wee hours of the night the merits of differentiated instruction.
NO MORE!
We have resolved to start letting go of the nitty-gritty details that can so consume our teaching lives. Instead the time gained from "knowing when to stop" will be spent pursuing hobbies that bring joy, or curling up in book nooks to read, or biking, or hiking, or canoeing, or visiting family, or drawing, or listening to music, or telling jokes, or cooking, or building Lego cities (and tearing them down), or playing soccer, or baking, or stargazing, or watching Star Wars on Blu-ray, or playing the guitar, or singing, or sleeping, or blogging...
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