mamawolfe https://jenniferwolfe.net/ loving fiercely | teaching audaciously | thinking deeply Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:48:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 http://jenniferwolfe.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/JW-Button-Square-1-150x150.jpg mamawolfe https://jenniferwolfe.net/ 32 32 84352264 “Afterlight”: Found Poetry http://jenniferwolfe.net/2023/02/afterlight-found-poetry.html#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=afterlight-found-poetry http://jenniferwolfe.net/2023/02/afterlight-found-poetry.html#respond Tue, 28 Feb 2023 21:48:07 +0000 http://jenniferwolfe.net/?p=8659 In the process of slowing down, it is infinitely simpler and easier to notice the beauty around me. The grey rainy skies blend into the rooftops and bare-branched honey locust trees in my backyard, afterlight echoing a hollowing, a sense of endings and beginnings shifting in and out of each other. I found these words […]

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]]> http://jenniferwolfe.net/2023/02/afterlight-found-poetry.html/feed 0 8659 To Be A Writer Today Is To Have Lived http://jenniferwolfe.net/2022/10/to-be-a-writer-today-is-to-have-lived.html#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-be-a-writer-today-is-to-have-lived http://jenniferwolfe.net/2022/10/to-be-a-writer-today-is-to-have-lived.html#respond Tue, 18 Oct 2022 14:54:33 +0000 http://jenniferwolfe.net/?p=8600 Instead of writing being what got me through, helped me understand, and kept me grounded in ritual and routine, it changed into worry, tension, rumination, and simply hard work.

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]]> http://jenniferwolfe.net/2022/10/to-be-a-writer-today-is-to-have-lived.html/feed 0 8600 Teacher Tired: When November Feels Like April http://jenniferwolfe.net/2021/11/teacher-tired-when-november-feels-like-april.html#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=teacher-tired-when-november-feels-like-april http://jenniferwolfe.net/2021/11/teacher-tired-when-november-feels-like-april.html#comments Sun, 21 Nov 2021 21:03:02 +0000 http://jenniferwolfe.net/?p=8618 Teacher tired is a real thing. I’m not going to argue the details here – I’ve shared thoughts about why teachers need the summer off, and how hard it is to take a sub day pre-pandemic. I’m talking about November 2021 teacher tired – an overwhelming, frustration-laden, overworked, and undersupported teacher tired where educators feel […]

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]]> http://jenniferwolfe.net/2021/11/teacher-tired-when-november-feels-like-april.html/feed 1 8618 The Teachers are NOT All Right http://jenniferwolfe.net/2021/10/the-teachers-are-not-all-right.html#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-teachers-are-not-all-right http://jenniferwolfe.net/2021/10/the-teachers-are-not-all-right.html#respond Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:16:00 +0000 http://jenniferwolfe.net/?p=8605 It’s been eleven months since I ‘closed’ the door to my classroom and left teaching in my public school district. Thirty years of working with middle school kids, sharing my love of reading, writing, and supporting the social and emotional needs of kids ended during the pandemic, during remote teaching and learning, leaving a big […]

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]]> http://jenniferwolfe.net/2021/10/the-teachers-are-not-all-right.html/feed 0 8605 What Have You Made This Year? http://jenniferwolfe.net/2021/05/what-have-you-made-this-year.html#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-have-you-made-this-year http://jenniferwolfe.net/2021/05/what-have-you-made-this-year.html#respond Sun, 16 May 2021 18:24:14 +0000 http://jenniferwolfe.net/?p=8551 Three months into my new job, I’ve made some discoveries about teacher and students and education – and myself. Now that I’m no longer in the classroom every day, I’ve had some space to think about the larger education community, and the impact the pandemic, remote learning, and now hybrid teaching have had on us. […]

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