Coddling or Kegan? Why knowing which side of the bridge you are on means all the world.

By: Bethany Huebner

Published on: 10/02/2020

How do we balance teaching with coddling? When do we cross that line, and how do we avoid crossing it? Do you ever feel caught in a debate and can’t decide how to move? From a student perspective, I can see how you expect to learn comes from how you have always learned. From a teaching perspective, I can see how students learn comes from how they have always learned. But those two assumptions aren’t typically the same assumption. Students now aren’t learning like they did before, so we as teachers need to begin to teach in ways we have never taught before.

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When I got slapped in the face by “Mama Bear”

By: Bethany Huebner

Published on: 02/12/2019

Have you ever found yourself in a power struggle with a student, a classmate, a coworker, or a friend? I want to do what I want to do…, but the other person wants to do it their way. Both ways can be entirely correct, but from each vantage point, the other person is wrong. As a struggling perfectionist…letting things go is not my strong suit. Letting others be in control is not my strong suit. Having an innate need to control the situation and orchestrate the perfect ending is my default setting.

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3 Things You Should Never Say in Front of an Audience

By: Bethany Huebner

Published on: 25/11/2019

Do you ever notice that happens in the classroom or in front of your audience? You think something sounds funny in your head and then once it is said out loud you wish you could crawl into a hole. Or you hope to tell your audience something that will be endearing, but it has the opposite effect?

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Can I Play in Jeans?

By: Bethany Huebner

Published on: 14/10/2019

Get more feedback and ideas to improve your classroom by doing this one thing. Spoiler alert...you should not play volleyball in jeans and here is why.

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