And I am not sure if it is good. There is a tiny revolution taking place in my head. It is manifesting itself in a purge. I have started getting rid of anything that feels extraneous in my classroom: handouts, file cabinets, tables, old educational theory books.
Here's the deal: I don't need all this crap in order to help students improve their writing. All I need are some well-written exemplar texts and some devices. This is quite contrary to the beginning of my career when I hoarded everything. But I'm kind of scaring myself. People are asking me if I'm retiring. I'm not. I just feel this compulsion to have less around me so that I can focus on what is important: reading, writing and talking about reading and writing. And that's it.
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