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Doreen Lwanga
Dec 26, 20146 min read
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...
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Doreen Lwanga
Dec 25, 20144 min read
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...
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Doreen Lwanga
Nov 24, 20144 min read
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...
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Doreen Lwanga
Nov 14, 20145 min read
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...
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Doreen Lwanga
Oct 15, 20146 min read
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...
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Doreen Lwanga
Sep 30, 20144 min read
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,...
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Doreen Lwanga
Sep 22, 20145 min read
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...
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Doreen Lwanga
Feb 7, 20146 min read
America the Beautiful!
It’s been a while, since I sat down to write something thoughtful. Forget about the daily email traffic, and posts on social media....
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