Beth Pandolpho
Trying to Let the Good Be Good Enough
I haven’t posted to my blog in months. I both have a lot of good reasons for this, and also do not. The first reason was because I was...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Oct 4, 2022
- 1 min
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Beth Pandolpho
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
Explore Your Inner Hedgehog with Jim Collins
In the last few months, I’ve listened to over 5 hours of podcast episodes featuring Jim Collins. Collins is a researcher and an author...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Feb 5, 2022
- 4 min
Becoming More Yourself with Atomic Habits
Perhaps the last kind of book we all need during these long, pandemic days is one that tells us how we can establish better habits in...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Jan 7, 2022
- 5 min
Finding Your Way with Atlas of the Heart
I am basically a fan of everything “Brené Brown”, but when I preordered Atlas of the Heart, I somehow failed to notice that it is very...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Dec 19, 2021
- 3 min
Relearning with the 1619 Project
At just a little more than 100 pages into The 1619 project, I need to take a pause. I'm going to use this time to reckon with all I did...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
Not So Minor Feelings
Minor Feelings, by poet Cathy Park Hong is a collection of non-fiction essays in which Hong examines and shares her experiences as an...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Nov 17, 2021
- 1 min
What it's really like to teach during the pandemic
I have been working in-person since September 2020, so I can tell you first-hand that without students, school is a very lonely place....
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Beth Pandolpho
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
The Continued Erasure of Black Triumph and Joy
Recently, in search for classroom resources, I came across a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. entitled, "What is Your Life's...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Oct 17, 2021
- 4 min
Untamed and Unbound: Memoir as an Offering
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do.” -Brené Brown The memoirs Untamed by...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Oct 3, 2021
- 4 min
Why It’s Okay If Someone Calls You a Racist
For my birthday, my kids bought me Ijeoma’s Oluo’s book, So You Want to Talk About Race. In the past, I’ve told them not to buy me any...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Sep 18, 2021
- 3 min
Stay Curious Just a Little Bit Longer
I loved this conversation with Michael Bungay Stanier, author of The Advice Trap and The Coaching Habit about why our “advice isn’t as...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Sep 6, 2021
- 4 min
Love as the Most Powerful Fuel to Effect Change
Beyond calling out and the cancel culture: Learning to call in and call on
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Beth Pandolpho
- Aug 24, 2021
- 3 min
Austin Channing Brown Offers Readers a Door In
I first listened to Austin Channing Brown’s book, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness as an audiobook. Although...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Aug 10, 2021
- 4 min
Choosing Vulnerability Over Complicity - A Disclaimer
"If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Jul 25, 2021
- 2 min
You Don't Need Anyone's Approval to Tell Your Story
Ashley C. Ford’s memoir, Somebody’s Daughter, is unapologetically honest, as she shares the most intimate details of her life so vividly...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
According to Claudia Rankine, A Better Term for "White Privilege" is "White Living"
Poet and educator, Claudia Rankine is a wise and generous teacher who illuminates the meaning of "white privilege" in a way that, for me,...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
It's All Going to Be Okay
If you’re not familiar with Nora McInerny or her podcast “Terrible, Thanks for Asking”, it features real people telling their stories -...
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Beth Pandolpho
- Jul 7, 2021
- 2 min
"The Other Black Girl" by Zakiya Dalila Harris
One of the things I love about reading is when authors share insights that you otherwise might not have access to in real life -...
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