michelle m. davis

Trust is a common theme in my writing. In The Awakening Series , I repeatedly use the phrase “ Trust, let go, believe … the best is yet to come .” Intentionally woven it into all three books in this series, I believe these words can help guide us forward, especially when we’re unsure how to proceed. This three-tiered message provides hope when life feels confusing.   Yet recently, I realized that for me, a component of trust implies that things will turn out as I want them to . Perhaps I...

“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world.”—Herman Hesse   This quote took me back to when I taught embryology at Wyomissing Hills Elementary Center. The local 4H club gave each fourth-grade classroom 20 fertilized eggs, an incubator, and material guiding us in how to “hatch chicks.” More anxious than my students, I watched the 20 eggs like a mother hen. While I’d taught fourth grade before, it was my first time doing so at this school, making this unit new to me....

Three simple words, but so difficult to say. Last night, I lay awake, thinking about my “last job” teaching. After ten years at home with our kids, I’d returned to the school where I’d previously taught … but this time as a Response to Intervention and Instruction (RtII) teacher. RtII was designed to help kids who struggled in the classroom. It had a protocol to determine if a student needed a “boost” due to missed skills, or if he or she could not learn at an appropriate rate and required a...