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push myself to newer levels i m grateful for those stir crazy moments and my desire to keep learning and trying more i m also grateful for those who perfect a grade or a content and who keep developing things to make learning better for kids their examples and strengths have been a blessing to me in so many ways 5 and lastly i think i have learned more and more that it s okay to share your voice as a teacher when i started i don t think i was vocal about things happening in my school district or state but teachers can have a voice and say and do and act on what is best for kids because truly that is what most teachers go into teaching to do to advocate for the ability to allow others to learn i would tell my younger self to not be afraid to do this and to continue to fight for our ability to learn my heart is full and grateful tonight as i prepare to start a year that i know is going to be full of adventure and change i m going to hold on to each moment of it and let it continue to let me grow i m thankful to all those who have helped me become truly this life is about becoming i m grateful i have found a career that has allowed me the opportunities i have had in life to grow posted by unknown at 10 36 pm no comments wednesday april 15 2015 this is why i teach april 15 2015 i just have a thought going through my head tonight that i have to get out of me i have had a few young new teachers ask me how i got to where i am because they don t want to teach forever and want to go places i m realizing i look younger to them than i really am one of the hardest decisions i have ever made was to stop teaching and take the job i currently have i remember when i interviewed i was certain i wouldn t be what they wanted when i was offered the job it shocked me i took me a few days to accept it i never aspired to become who i am in my career i don t get paid more i don t have less work and i have a lot more to do and be accountable to each day me moving this way though stemmed from a desire to be the best teacher i could be how do we become better by learning and doing i studied what i taught and worked on understanding it as much as i could so my students could reach their full potential my passion for education grew into a desire to help teachers become better as well the reason i took this position is because in the past several years i have realized that i want to help more students have successful learning experiences how do you do that by working with their teachers today i spent some time in classrooms it made me miss it the interactions with kids their love and support of you as their teacher and most of all seeing that lightbulb connect as they get it those 8 years that i taught first grade were some of the most precious years of my life i learned so much about me as a teacher about students as learners and about how to engage my kids and to study and plan for what they needed to learn looking back at that time i didn t want to teach 1st grade but now that i have i thank god everyday for that experience those kids helped me discover teaching they helped me to want to be the best teacher i can be i am so glad he trusted me to be part of their early foundation to life to those young teachers who ask me how to jump to where i am i would say change happens when it is right and the time is what you need being the best teacher you can be first is the most important part though you can t do that in 3 years unless you are a super hero experience is what molds us into who we are never ever ever cheat yourself out of that especially when it comes to working with kids focus on what you are doing now though and how it is affecting you as a teacher and most importantly how it is affecting those precious students young amy at the start of her career 5 years in i pushed myself to get my masters and national board certification always in school always working posted by unknown at 11 25 pm no comments saturday february 28 2015 becoming a daily activity february 28 2015 i had a pretty amazing experience happen to me today with the dub nutrition company i amazingly ranked up to distributor 4 star this week and i know i didn t do it on my own there were so many people helping me get there from an amazing up line guiding me and to some pretty amazing customers who have continued to buy product and developed a love for it too today after they presented awards to those of us who rank advanced this month the ceo jeremy wardle made a comment about me that i ve been thinking about ever since i left he said amy is not the same person that she was when she joined dub and he is right let s look at that girl for just a minute when i first met dub i was struggling with a lot of things i was struggling with balance eating right exercising and feeling good about myself i m pretty sure i had a broken heart too and just overdoing it in school was killing me off i wasn t happy being me i have accomplished so much for being so young there was no reason for not liking myself but i was having confidence issues because i wasn t happy with how i looked how i felt and how hard it was to do things i had been having knee issues from previous life choices i was constantly giving myself negative self talk because i wasn t what i thought i should be i knew what needed to change eating healthy and working out more in my mind that translated to eating less and working out a lot more but going to school and working a new job were taking it s toll on me and my time it can be so so hard to prioritize our health into our lives then i found dub nutrition that s a completely amazing story in and of itself one not for today as i began to take the supplements and learn about healthy eating and train with so many different people i began to be empowered within my own body the more i learned to love my body regardless of what it looked like and the more i began to take care of it and give it the care it needed the more i realized that i am important to me i am worth the effort then as i began to overcome that the lifestyle changes became me i began to eat healthier more often i began to work out for fun and more than one time a day it became me and who i am and now i just have a lifestyle i perform better in my job and have been developing new fitness hobbies i never thought i would have the business end has taken me more to understand and love but today i finally ranked within the company and i am grateful to represent dub i have been told i am a walking bill board for it and it makes me laugh because i don t think i have realized how much i have changed i m still me but more confident more careful about choices i make and more compassionate about helping others and i am seeing the possibilities with this company and i am hoping to be able to accomplish so much more with them am i done growing heavens no i know that there is always room to grow and be better but for now i have seen so much growth in myself in one year of my life and a lot of it goes to this amazing opportunity i have been given to live my life and help others to any friends out there needing to find that thing to help you be who you need to keep looking and don t give up and if i can help i have a good team of friends who have been that for me most diets and plans i have failed in life but this is one lifestyle change i am keeping i m glad dub found me and that i have been able to have it become a big part of my life dub it up posted by unknown at 4 56 pm no comments monday january 26 2015 the honest truth january 26 2015 here s the honest truth i am a terrible listener reason number one i have the teacher listen down i can have someone ramble on and on about things and nod along and hear key words and pretend that i know what they are talking about reason number two often times when i am listening i cut people off and interrupt them because i thought of something important to say and i am more important right just kidding that s a terrible attitude how many times do we find ourselves in this spot where we think we are being a good listener but really we aren t we get so enthralled in hearing our own thinking because honestly let s face it we learn when we express ourselves and say what we are thinking and sometimes we just need to shut up i ve recently been attending coaching training and studying more about mentoring for my job and one thing they stress a lot is the power of listening often times we go in as coaches or mentors and we want to fix a person or we want to have them hear how it should be how much do we miss when we go in to talk with someone when we have our own agendas can i share a sad personal experience i was coaching a teacher immediately upon entering her classroom i knew what needed to be changed and i knew how we were going to do it the trick was to guide her to see my vision my vision upon our first meeting we talked and she kept bringing up a problem child in her class that she didn t know what to do with i felt the problem was a bit more than this i kept wanting to focus on the pieces that were missing because i felt that would help the problem child but she couldn t see my vision of where i was going she kept talking about this student i didn t listen at the end of my coaching cycle as we were finishing up and i was hoping i had helped guide her to the direction i felt she needed to go she brought up this student still i realized i had failed i hadn t heard her had i heard her in the first place maybe she would have listened better when i was coaching her because we would have taken care of the thing that was on her mind first it would have been our vision food for thought how often do you listen really listen without interrupting without having thoughts pop into your head without trying to one up the person you are talking to or fix them without bringing them down really think about it it s something i m working on and i m trying harder i ve been practicing listening exercises and trying to learn more about how i function as a listener it s a hard thing to be a good listener but it can be worth it you can have amazing lessons if you listen and learn a lot about other people also watch for those people who do truly listen because you know you have a gem when you have found one posted by unknown at 9 25 pm no comments thursday january 1 2015 life it s all about time 2014 is coming to a close in a few hours and my heart is full i seem to have repeating lessons i learn every year and this year came with some i would have rather not repeated but this year one of the most valuable lessons i learned was this my time is what i make of it i have often times in life been the person who says i don t have time for that or this isn t fitting into my schedule but in 2014 i learned that as much as we like to disown our claim to having control over our time essentially we are the ones who decide that we don t have time why is it that we say i don t have time is it because it isn t important is it because we are afraid is it because we don t know how to say no this year i learned to face this question head on what is worthy of my time we easily get sucked into responsibility work family because those things are good and important to who we are but taking care of myself became a priority to me this year as well i decided it was time to invest in myself to be a healthier amy i have put so many other things before my body in the past and i have hated myself for it this year i decided to learn to exercise and exercise smart i decided to learn to eat healthy i decided to learn about supplementation and how our bodies need vitamins and things our food doesn t have i decided to give myself a chance this year some people might say that it s wrong wrong to spend time taking care of myself wrong to discover i love new things like running and weight training wrong to cut out things from my diet that weren t helping me feel good but maybe it is wrong that i had never taught myself to love me enough to do this before now maybe these lifestyle changes would have always been something that could balance in with my time if nothing else from 2014 that is one of my most prized possessions i learned to give time to myself to take care of me and that was a big task because i m one of the busiest people i know the amazing part of it was i learned how to make things that are important my lifestyle so it isn t even a matter about having time anymore it s a matter of living living my life the way i want to and becoming a better person if i can find time we can all find time for whatever we feel is important in our lives time is all we have and change is always there embrace it 2015 i m looking forward to having the time of my life this year because i ll make time for it posted by unknown at 11 08 pm no comments monday november 24 2014 living in thanksgiving daily 1 i had the opportunity in church yesterday to be reminded of how thanksgiving is sometimes the forgotten holiday thanksgiving was founded on the religious rights of the pilgrims leaving england and coming to america where they could worship freely and how they wanted when they came here they had a lot to learn about the new land and the native americans were great to teach them how to survive in plymouth i remember one of my favorite times of year when i taught 1st grade was during this time we would review the story of the pilgrims in our non fiction text and read about the things they went through we would then talk about why the pilgrims were thankful and then we would talk about what we could be thankful for and make a cute thankful turkey that would go up on my bulletin board but reflecting on thanksgiving yesterday made me realize i haven t been as reflective as i used to be this time of year so i m making myself write because it is how i learn about things i am thankful for this week i know some may look at it as just another thankful post but it really comes down to selfish reasons for myself when we live in thanksgiving daily we change our attitudes and our hearts and right now mine might need that so here s post number one i am thankful for my family family is one of our main reasons for coming here to this earth i have been blessed to be born to a great family with great parents and sisters i have some pretty amazing parents that have been there for me through so many things my father is an amazing dad he has been my rock in my life through many trials even one s i put myself through every big project i feel like taking on he s the one who puts me back together when i feel like i should give up he s believed in me through so many things and has also been the priesthood example i need in my life my dad s love and passion for teaching has blessed my life and probably influenced me in my career i am so glad to be a daddy s girl my mom is also pretty amazing those of you who have had the chance to get to know her have probably been 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