Author Archives: Rachel Pierson

The Power of an Open Door

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Admittedly, due to some Issues I’ve been having recently in this thing we call life, I’ve been feeling moody. There’s so many things to be positive about right now, including the release of a collaborative book! (Yikes, I’m a published author now?? Who would have thought.) I’ve let myself wallow for a long time in this space, so I have… Read more »

Empowering Learners #TIES16

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My first time at TIES was last year, and I was very excited to be able to participate in this event again this year. The theme this year was “Empowering Learners,” and it reinforced how much student voice and choice is becoming a normal mode of education. I’m going to go ahead and publish this post; check back for further thoughts…. Read more »

Jesus Paid it All

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I know I’ve saved the majority of posts on this blog for educational purposes, but I was typing a response to a group of Christian educators, and it turned out much longer than I intended it to be. I watched this video, and I was inspired to write my response below. I’ve been tripping myself lately — procrastination, perfectionism, not… Read more »

Hello world!

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After months and months of sitting on this domain, thinking about what I was going to do with it, procrastination and more procrastination, I’ve finally migrated my content from my old wordpress.com site, and here we are! I know almost every post in this blog of mine says things like “I’m sorry I haven’t written in a long time…” or… Read more »