I am horrible at titles. To create a title for this blog, I actually followed a tried and true method one of my colleagues uses with her students to create titles for stories using a mind map. I began with a center circle called "question." After a series of circles I got to a phrase used by a Sea Isle City beach yoga instructor. She would say to us, in her soothing yoga voice, that somehow did not need to be raised over the waves breaking the shore, "Quiet your monkey minds." It was a great analogy for me because there is surely a monkey jumping around in my brain making a mess of my thoughts, jumping from one tree branch of an idea to another, without every pausing to stop and admire the view. The monkey mind should not be silenced but it does need to lean how to be still long enough to pick a few apples. Writing this blog is my way of pausing on those tree branches to reflect on what I see, and how I can use the view to direct my teaching and learning. Welcome to my tree.
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