Mrs. Moore's Musings

Moore Family Tree 2014 2014 is almost finished.  What a year it has been!  Never in my wildest imagination could I have known what this year would hold for me.  My dad has been sick, and well, and sick again-and is finally headed towards peace about his new health challenges.  My son graduated high school and began college.  My daughter started driving and continues to evolve as a remarkable human being and lovely young woman. My husband and I celebrated our marriage, put in a pool, and I am more madly in love with him today than I was when we met.  I grew closer with my brother-which I did not even think was possible-and learned to embrace family far and near.  I lost my grandmother and through celebrating her life found joy in the small things with my sister, our boys and my mom. I have deepened friendships and begun new ones. Professionally I have had the opportunity to grow and participate in so much, I am overwhelmed.  My life has been filled with so much to cherish and celebr

I have been thinking about this post for a while.  It seems incredibly disingenuous to live the life I live and have the beliefs I have and to not write anything about what has happened in America over the last few months.  Although I haven’t talked about it a lot, the events in Ferguson and New York have broken my heart and caused me question many things. As a teacher, I have very few rules or very little rigidity in my classroom.  I usually teach content that is timely, so I don’t teach the same thing year to year because I first want to understand what interests my students.  Before I decided to become a teacher, I was  working for a major corporation and I  thought I could handle teaching.  Content-wise I was correct.  I love my content.  However, the biggest learning obstacle for me was that I was teaching people so vastly different than myself- in so many ways.  I thought it was no big deal.  Just teach them the stuff, and everything would be okay.  I could be friendly and ki