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
- 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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Joy Bully
- Apr 23, 2019
- 2 min
Malignant Dogma
Today is Earth Day. Yesterday, on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka terrorists attacked and murdered hundreds of people in a house of worship. I...
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Joy Bully
- Jan 26, 2019
- 3 min
Joy is a choice
This morning I watched the sunrise through a thicket of winter branches stretching towards and away from each other framing the backdrop...
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Joy Bully
- Dec 26, 2018
- 4 min
Is it lost?
The beginning of the story, is the same for all of us. We all lose things and spend time cursing ourselves for not being more organized...
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Joy Bully
- Dec 8, 2018
- 3 min
Joybullies in Whoville!
How do we practice being joyful, when being joyful becomes a mandate? How do we get in the spirit? It is nearly impossible to avoid the...
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Joy Bully
- Nov 16, 2018
- 2 min
The future looks bright!
Young folks are natural Joybullies. They might be called idealists, but we call them realists. Our small planet is a big village twirling...
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Joy Bully
- Nov 8, 2018
- 3 min
1=1 Simple-every person every vote
I voted yesterday, like I always do without any problems. I went before work and easily parked my car. I walked into the polls and...
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Joy Bully
- Oct 29, 2018
- 2 min
Big Game: November 6th
BE THE STAR PLAYER! The World Series ended last night. My team, my local team, won it. Those scrappy young determined men, led by their...
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