{"id":4047,"date":"2015-03-02T09:38:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.educatoral.com\/wordpress\/?p=4047"},"modified":"2015-08-08T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T06:22:16","slug":"half-life-as-educator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatoral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/02\/half-life-as-educator\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Life as Educator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the publication of this blog post I turn 48 years of age. What makes this age cool for me is that it marks exactly half my life spent educating youth in grades 4 through 8.\u00c2\u00a0 I started teaching 4th and 5th grade in South Central Los Angeles in 1991. I was 24 years old.<\/p>\n

This is my 24th year teaching so that makes it exactly half my life thus far spent teaching. I thought that was pretty cool. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Of course, if you take into account that before I started teaching I had spent most of my first 24 years on Earth as a student either in Pre-K through 12 grade or in college then I’ve been in schools most of my life! Aside from odd jobs here and there to make money I haven’t really done anything else but education. Does that make me an expert?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the publication of this blog post I turn 48 years of age. What makes this age cool for me is that it marks exactly half my life spent educating youth in grades 4 through 8.\u00c2\u00a0 I started teaching 4th and 5th grade in South Central Los Angeles in 1991. I was 24 years old. … <\/p>\n

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