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Fear is Our Biggest Impediment
For many of us, fear is our biggest impediment! Fear grips us, cripples us, and enslaves us! We are afraid of the dark We are afraid of...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 2, 20151 min read
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Happy Thanksgiving 2015!
Happy Thanksgiving America and the World! Wherever you are! I have not witness a very warm Thanksgiving Day in a long while! It was 55F...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 26, 20153 min read
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The Trials and Tribulations of Extroverts
True, Introverts are often ridiculed as bad communicators, lone souls, poor social buddies and individualist. While Extroverts are...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 25, 20154 min read
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An article in Chicago Tribune profiles former Stanford Dean Lythcott-Haims, among other writers like Jessica Lahey (“The Gift of Failure”...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 24, 20154 min read
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Homeroom Teacher Knows Best!
While I pride myself in running an efficient and persistent Mommy School, I have also made peace with the notion that, “Homeroom Teacher...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 10, 20154 min read
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More Birthday Celebrations – There is Only One Boston…..Marathon
On the eve of celebrating yet 21st Birthday….For-ever 21, get’t…. I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude, for all the support I...
Doreen Lwanga
Apr 27, 20157 min read
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In the Middle of Everywhere!
Have you ever felt stuck in the Middle of Everywhere? In the Middle of Everywhere Imagine for a minute that you are stuck in “space”....
Doreen Lwanga
Mar 5, 20153 min read
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Perhaps there is Freedom in Suffering?
It is a given that all humans live in pursuit of happiness! We all want to be happy, with ourselves, our loved ones and our families. We...
Doreen Lwanga
Feb 17, 20153 min read
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Nobody is Ever in a Permanent State of Being
We grow, we age We age, we experience We experience, we learn We learn, we rethink We rethink, we enlarge We enlarge, we seek We seek, we...
Doreen Lwanga
Feb 9, 20154 min read
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Dear Parents, Your Kids Celebrations Are Not About You…!
I typically do not write about family affairs. I have a self-censored rule that “I shall NOT wash my family dirty linen in public. Even...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 26, 20146 min read
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Kids are Cultural “Whores”: Wait, can you say the “W” with Kids…?
It is amazing how quickly kids switch cultural identify. Well, if like me, you believe that “language is culture”, that’s what I am...
Doreen Lwanga
Dec 25, 20144 min read
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Different shades of Special Needs
“There is no one student who is similar to the other. And no one student behaves the same everyday,” so she said to me. I cannot agree...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 24, 20144 min read
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Special Ed Teachers Have Special Needs Too!
How does a teacher manage a student with special needs? How does a teacher stabilize student with emotional and behavioral needs? How...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 21, 20145 min read
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Learning about Veterans Day from my sixth grader
I cannot recall the last time I went to church, so the order of events at my neighborhood celebration of Veterans Day 2014 caught me off...
Doreen Lwanga
Nov 14, 20145 min read
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Re-testing my Mental Stamina
I am re-experimenting with my mental stamina. I am sure you are surprised that I say, “I am re-testing my mental stamina!” Especially if...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 30, 20143 min read
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When “Study Hard and You will Do Good is not enough, and Why the Need for Role Models
illustration source: NYT, “A Formula for Happiness”, December 14, 2013 (Arthur C. Brooks) Very often we hear these ‘words of the wise’:...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 21, 20144 min read
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Teaching Children about Columbus Day in an era of Contested Knowledge and Truth Formation
This past Monday, October 13, 2014, was Columbus Day, when America remembers Christopher Columbus. So, my first grader and I engaged in a...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 15, 20146 min read
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014: The Day Facebook ceased being indispensable [to me]
Today is Monday, October 13, 2014. It’s been thirteen days since I last logged onto my Facebook page. That means I have not been on FB...
Doreen Lwanga
Oct 13, 20143 min read
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In Defense of the “Word Value of Time”: From a Soccer Mom
I feel for all the sentiments Simon expressed! Though my comment to Simon was, “come to America….with plenty of versions of Uganda,...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 30, 20144 min read
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Not Everyone is Sophie, John, Jane or Matt: Diversity Consciousness in the Classroom
Recently, I was at an teacher training workshop, where the speaker for a session on “Qualities of a Good Substitute Teacher” mentioned...
Doreen Lwanga
Sep 22, 20145 min read
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