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Ready or Not, You’re a Teacher!

Posted on August 4, 2025 by mitchteemley

Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy Thought for the Week Five years ago today, I met the future. His name was Jaylen. He and I had been matched as mentee and mentor by a local social service organization. How did I feel? … Continue reading →

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Two New Studies Reveal: Time Travel is Real!

Posted on September 1, 2022 by mitchteemley

A heavily funded study at the Institute for Advanced Research in Really Important Stuff has shown that all humans (and most animals) travel forward at the rate of 1 (one) DaaT (Day at a Time)! More information will be released … Continue reading →

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Getting To See the End

Posted on August 12, 2020 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Ms. K of the blog site The Chronicles of Ms. K. I don’t know her full name, but I do know that K is a wonderfully dedicated English teacher in a public middle school. … Continue reading →

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Once a Teacher, Always a Teacher

Posted on December 10, 2018 by mitchteemley

Our students are about to go on winter break. And soon all the schools will be empty. But the teachers will still be thinking about their kids. Their spouses and friends will heckle, “Give it a rest!” But a true … Continue reading →

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Two New Studies Reveal: Time Travel is Real!

Posted on September 1, 2017 by mitchteemley

A heavily funded study at the Institute for Advanced Research in Really Important Stuff has shown that all humans (and most animals) travel toward the future at the rate of 1 DaaT (Day at a Time). More information will be … Continue reading →

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Theology 101

Posted on April 23, 2017 by mitchteemley

A professor of religious studies informed his students on the last day of the term that not one of them had demonstrated a satisfactory understanding of Christianity. He ordered them to take out a blank sheet of paper and, in … Continue reading →

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Real Fatherhood

Posted on October 3, 2016 by mitchteemley

During self-introductions a college student of mine once boasted that he’d fathered 11 children by 11 different mothers. I normally avoid judgmental statements. Not this time. “Do you support them?” I asked. “Uh, no!” he said with a grin. “Then … Continue reading →

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