Just+Another+Sarah...

**Background**
toc Hi, my name is Sarah, and I am a third grade "group" teacher at The Miquon School, a small Progressive N-6 school in Conshohocken, PA. You can find out more about Miquon [|here]. I love my job, particularly my fabulous classroom (two, yes two floors!) which, by the way, is far larger than the actual apartment in which I live. :-) I also love that I get to be moving around and constantly challenged to think of things in new ways by my students, colleagues, and the families with which I work.

**Favorite quote**
A quote that I always keep with me as a personal and professional reminder is something a mentor of mine passed on: "To teach is to demonstrate." I definitely do not think it is literally true, since so often passive learners watching a demonstration don't learn very much at all. However, on another level, it reminds me that everything I do or say, and even what I don't, is teaching others. This quote often enables me to step back and get some perspective about what is happening inside of //me// if I start to become frustrated or frazzled by something that seems to be happening in my classroom.

A few favorite things

 * Godiva chocolates (Heck, any chocolates)
 * Jane Austen novels and film adaptations
 * The Beatles
 * any books by Thomas Merton (though I do not identify with any specific religion)
 * living in my Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia

Don't you hate it when...

 * people hit your car and then yell at //you//? (This has happened to me twice in the past year!)
 * your email program crashes and you lose a perfect letter (before you saved)?
 * people talk loudly during movies? (The last one I saw, a group of young women kept yelling, "He's soooo hot!"

Sarah's De.licio.us Bookmarking address: []
==**YouTube Link: Part 1 (of 8) of the 1942 propaganda piece, er...film "The Courageous William Penn"**: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=G-cFNYRPWoo&feature=related==