Dania Borrero

5 tips and tricks to love your job Blogged while listening to 90's R&B in my backyard lounge.  Today's blog is inspired by my current feelings right at this instant and should not be taken as an exaggeration of an all-encompassing unhappiness for my job. While I am interacting with my students and coworkers, I am generally happy. However, there has been a creeping dislike for the direction and morale that is currently engulfing my place of work. In trying to self-reflect, I have put the blame on my Sagittarius qualities of having too many interests, becoming bored too easily, and a great need for challenges and growth opportunities. All of these qualities are surfacing and in my current state of emotions are not being placated by my job, to no fault of my job, of coarse. In an article of the Best and Worst Careers for a Sagittarius , teaching has always been a calling for Sagis. So one would think that I'm in my ideal situation, right? NOPE. I keep having to work a...

5 tips and tricks to find what genre of books you'd like to read Blogged while stuffing my face with some good Sunday night pizza night pizza as my husband plays video games.  Today's post ties in to my 2017 reading goals . When I was younger, I loved murder mysteries/revenge/vampire novels. I remember reading Iris Johanson's "The Ugly Duckling"  in high school and loving it. I had decided that murder mysteries what genre I liked to read, and anything else was pretty boring. Give me a great Twilight series, and I'm in. I couldn't imagine reading someone's biography or a historical nonfiction novel.  BORING !!! As an avid reader though, sometimes it takes another person, or situation to put a great book in your hand to realize that there is so much out there. Who knew that I would love reading t ranscendentalist authors such as Emerson, Thoreau or Fuller, but after visiting Walden Pond in the stillness of its frozen covering, I immersed  myself ...

Long Lost Are the Days Where Students Go To School To Memorize Content 5 Tips and Tricks To Keep Focused on What's Important Blogged while watching #SummerHouse and SMH, giving more support on why we should be teaching our students what's important When I went to school we were required to learn content, memorize that content, take a test, and move on to the next. Being a teacher today though encompasses bringing in real world issues, relevant situations, technology management, student-centered instruction, with collaborative presentations and projects. It has been said that we are preparing students for jobs that still yet don't exist. Every year I reinvent my teaching style, incorporating different activities, technology, and focus of learning for my students. Being completely transparent and honest, it is exhausting and sometimes it is hard to notice if it's worth it. See my post on How to WOW Students with activities that I completed last school year. You c...

2017 Travel Goals What are your 2017 Travel Goals? 5 Tips and Tricks to Get Your Travel On So I have been blessed to be able to have traveled to 26 different cities in 2016! My Goal in 2015 was to average a trip a month, and I did just that, so 2016 had to be bigger and better, but it was totally on accident. Below you will find the map of the 26 different places I went in 2016 and the order that I went them to. Read on for my tips and tricks for traveling and my 2017 travel goals. Subscribe and follow my Wednesday travel blogs for more. I hope you take this year's ride with me.  5 TIPS AND TRICKS FOR A YEAR OF TRAVEL! 1. Consider taking a cruise. Cruises are your mode of transportation and your boarding while your traveling and they usually include meals. It's a great way to see lots of places without tons of expenses. Find deals, low seasons, etc. 11 cities on my list were from cruising.  2. Stay with Friends. Have friends that live in other pla...