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Joy Bully
- Jun 19
- 5 min
Juneteenth, a belated holiday with a lesson!
by Kerry Zagarella Happy Juneteenth seems like a strange acknowledgement. Perhaps Happy extremely belated Juneteenth. Juneteenth marks...
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Joy Bully
- May 20
- 4 min
We are in charge! We are in charge! We are in charge!
by Kerry Zagarella I have already publicly confessed that I follow way too many social media reels, stories, posts and all the other...
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Joy Bully
- Apr 21
- 5 min
Jesus, Disney and Bud Light!
By Kerry Zagarella Well before my children were born I had a disdain for Disney. I am not talking about Walt, or The Jungle Book or even...
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Joy Bully
- Mar 9
- 5 min
Rumblings to Spring
by Kerry Zagarella Growing up in Florida I wasn’t aware of nature’s patterns. I didn’t think about the dependability of the changing...
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Joy Bully
- Feb 12
- 3 min
Reverse the Purge!
by Kerry Zagarella The Purge franchise includes 5 full length movies and one year as a television series. The premise of these dystopian...
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Joy Bully
- Jan 8
- 4 min
2023 It's time!
by Kerry Zagarella There are certainly many New Year’s resolutions that folks have in common. The main focus is usually physical well...
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Joy Bully
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
Take a knee or two
Take a knee, or two! By Kerry Zagarella I can easily recall from my childhood the majesty of a Christmas Eve midnight mass. The...
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Joy Bully
- Apr 29, 2022
- 4 min
Follow the Joy: CHASE THE BUTTERFLY!
by Kerry Zagarella The Chase the Butterfly for CureCMT4J road race is a joyous celebration of human kindness and strength, with an...
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Joy Bully
- Feb 26, 2022
- 3 min
Banned books made me a reader! by Kerry Zagarella
I remember the first moment I became a reader. I’m not talking about when I first learned the mechanics of reading; that happened when I...
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Joy Bully
- Jun 24, 2021
- 5 min
Covid as my co-teacher!
By Kerry Zagarella 2021 will go down in my teaching history as one of the most inspirational years ever and it was not because of the...
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Joy Bully
- Mar 20, 2021
- 5 min
reSISTERS by Kerry Zagarella
A few months back, during another Covid online shopping spree, I bought some tunics. Long, big huge tunics, that I could wear with...
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Joy Bully
- Oct 25, 2020
- 4 min
We are their students
I have been teaching young children my whole life, a little over 4 decades to be exact. I know I am fortunate to have a career that I...
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Joy Bully
- Aug 29, 2020
- 4 min
The Mail MUST get through!
I really can’t remember which cereal or candy bar was behind the Pan Am plastic airplane mail-in give away promotion of my 1960 childhood...
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Joy Bully
- Mar 26, 2020
- 3 min
Families come first!
Teaching has always been about making connections. The most successful classrooms establish collaborative routines, mutual respect,...
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Joy Bully
- Dec 28, 2019
- 3 min
2020 needs you-Happy New Year!
How about we all share a New Year’s resolution and Make America Great Again?! It is hard to argue with the idea of making something great...
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Joy Bully
- Oct 14, 2019
- 3 min
Fall up or down
I love a gray day. The darker the better and as a backdrop to the orange sherbet creamsicle leaves the season becomes a stunning...
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Joy Bully
- Oct 1, 2019
- 5 min
The Kids are Alright!
Idealism is often described as a characteristic of adolescence. An excerpt from the Health Academy in Australia notes, “Adolescents begin...
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Joy Bully
- Jul 12, 2019
- 4 min
Bravado powered JOY
The day the USA Women’s Soccer Team won the World Cup I was deep into staring at a screen writing something or other. I didn’t even know...
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Joy Bully
- May 13, 2019
- 2 min
Janis and Mom
Happy Mother's Day y'all. I wrote these two poems as I thought about my mom, Judy. Made for More attempts to capture a moment I...
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