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OK,  these two things came together today. (Imagine spooky  music playing in the back ground)

1. Last Saturday I was thinking about underachieving students and an article that I’d read ages ago when I was taking my special education specialist course. I remember liking it at the time because it helped me make sense of underachieving students. I wish I had remembered more of it. Surprisingly, I remembered the author’s name, Sylvia Rimm, and was able to find her website when I googled for it, but I wasn’t able to find the article on line.

2. Today,  I was going down to the basement to workout. I’m trying to keep my back happy this year so I work out everyday.  I started working out at the beginning of December and now my back is really, really happy. I intend to keep it that way.

I was just about to start exercising when I noticed some file folders sitting in a box in our storage room aka the gym. (My husband is in the process of converting the room into a mini gym.) Right now it’s a bit disorganized. I went over to the file folders, opened one up ( spooky music playing louder) and there it was:   Sylvia Rimm’s article.  The very article I was thinking about- “How to Reach the Underachiever.”

OK,  since I don’t really believe in coincidences what am I to make of this?

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4 Responses to “I really don’t believe in coincidences so what am I to make of this?”

1. chris on January 15th, 2009 8:14 am

   Good morning Elona,
   Jim Trelease has a fab book for teachers that’s full of read-alouds for older students. You can’t lose with reading aloud to students, no matter how old they are. The book is titled Read All About It! My teachers borrow it all the time, esp. my special ed teachers.

2. Elona Hartjes on January 15th, 2009 12:36 pm

   Thanks, Chris. I’ll check with our librarian.

3. Tracy Rosen on January 17th, 2009 12:02 pm

   I don’t believe in coincidences either, but I do believe that our minds do a lot of work behind the scenes. Perhaps somewhere your mind had an ancient memory (ok, maybe not ancient, maybe simply old ) of that article being in one of those folders and got your body down in that basement to take a look. We CAN create our circumstances if we just let our minds work.

4. Elona Hartjes on January 17th, 2009 12:28 pm

   Tracy,
   You could be right. I’ve been thinking (obsessing) a lot this semester about some of the underachievers I support. I know that I’ve files away some of the more useful resources from when I did my specialist training. It isn’t unreasonable to think, as you suggest, that my mind was working behind the scenes to put my need together with the resources I had. I guess I don’t need the spooky music now.

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