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temper temper
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’m probably going to get a LOT of pushback on this, but at least in my family, men have worse tempers than the rest of us. And they don’t believe it! Sheesh. Give a guy a cold, a fever, too much work, too many things to do, and he plotzes. Loudly, w/ a LOT of…
coffee and chocolate and cream and…multiculturalism?
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Britton Gildersleeve
I’m drinking what America should BE right now (bear with me: it’s metaphor time). Coffee from Africa, rich & fragrant. Chocolate from South America. Cinnamon from Saigon, cayenne pepper from who knows where, and milk from an organic farm coop of many American states. In a bee mug (from my BFF!). With a silver spoon…
for love of boys: a letter from a friend & colleague ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
A friend sent me a note after my previous post. Her husband, she said, had grown up in a family that substituted isolation and alienation for love, hard ‘discipline’ (most of us would call it verbal abuse) for compassion, and religious fear for reflective belief. It was, she told me, a profoundly sad & ugly childhood.…
revisiting microagressions and social justice (and what white people get out of both) ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I spent most of June this summe, in a graduate Institute with teachers of all grade levels (k-university), in several content areas, and from varied backgrounds. The seminar lasts for three weeks. During week 2 we discuss cultures: what each of us — teacher & student alike — bring to a classroom. Of this year’s…
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