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Loved seeing more former students today who are now teachers❤️ by @kelly.pace.211

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3 days ago

I love seeing former students who are now teachers!❤️ by @kelly.pace.211

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4 days ago

Ocean State of Mind
Isle of Palms and VA Beach 2026 by @kelly.pace.211

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18 days ago

Happy 17th Birthday to the one who made our family a Party of Five! Love you, Jack! by @kelly.pace.211

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24 days ago

Happy 21st birthday to the one who made me a mom! ❤️ by @kelly.pace.211

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a month ago

Class of 2026: I want you to have it all! 💙🖤 by @kelly.pace.211

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2 months ago

Feet Up Friday: This week one of my students asked if I was going to post a Feet Up Friday post for the last week of school. “I think people stopped reading them,” I said. “I used to read at least the first sentence,” one of my students said. “I read every single word,” said another. I’ve realized it doesn’t matter how much my students read. If I stop posting, they might not ever know how I feel. So this post gives you a recap of my year—one of my favorites. The students I taught were funny and smart and opinionated. I had to teach some students who I’ve known since they were in kindergarten. I taught my own son. I really saw my students learn this year because they cared. And that’s all I could really ask for. We defended Antigone in a mock trial, planned Amazon wishlists for characters in Remarkably Bright Creatures, created PSAs, tutored over 460 students, presented at a conference in the most professional manner, and held a literary cupcake war in our final class. At the end of the year I asked my students to complete a survey about class. Many chose to comment on the community we built in Room 211. I think that is my greatest accomplishment for the year—my students became my family and the student who already is my family gave me a glimpse into how he learns. I stumbled upon a song on my playlist this week by They Might Be Giants called “Birdhouse in Your Soul” that I can’t get out of my head. The 1989 hit is told from the perspective of a nightlight, repeating the lyric “Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you, make a little birdhouse in your soul.” The song represents the things we hold onto that make us feel safe in uncertain times. It’s a metaphor for comfort and positivity. My final wish for you, my students, is to know how grateful I am for the community we built. Room 211 will always be open, representing the positivity of the birdhouse in your soul. Thanks for a great year of memories! by @kelly.pace.211

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2 months ago

Signing Day! The past few days these seniors left their mark on my wall after leaving their mark on me as their teacher over the past year. I started this tradition of painting and signing college bricks 10 years ago and it’s still going strong! Five new bricks were added to the wall this year (Tampa, Penn State, Howard, Tennessee, and Auburn). Twenty-eight new signatures adorn my wall. These seniors are headed out to do amazing things. The rest is still unwritten. by @kelly.pace.211

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2 months ago

Unintentional Twinning!
My amazing friend and collab partner and I were on the same wavelength today wearing the same exact dress. I’ve taught collaborative English with her for the past three years. In those years, she has helped me grow so much as a teacher. I’m honored to do the work we get to do in A2 with her!💙🖤 by @kelly.pace.211

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2 months ago

Prom 2026: Collecting Moments by @kelly.pace.211

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3 months ago

College Decision Day
I didn’t get to see many of my seniors today, but I’m proud of all of them for the decisions they made about their life beyond Atlee HS. Decision Day always makes me grateful I chose to be a Richmond Spider.

Ironically I started a unit on the college essay with my juniors today where I shared my college essay I wrote 34 years ago. It’s not a good essay even though it got me into college. Most of my students would not have admitted me. Some even thought it was written with Chat-GPT. Nope. Just written on a typewriter 34 years ago by a girl who has come a long way as a writer and thinker! by @kelly.pace.211

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3 months ago

I’ve always found ferris wheels majestic. The ferris wheel slowly lets us on and off, until we sit for a while at the top, soaking in what’s going on below us. Time can stand still on a ferris wheel, as it offers a contemplative ride of an unhurried pace. How often we rush through life, but the ferris wheel keeps us in a meditative experience that no other amusement park ride can come close to delivering. I spent the past five days in Atlanta, chaperoning a DECA field trip. Every day, we would walk past a ferris wheel that stood in the middle of the city. The SkyView Atlanta rises over 200 feet above Centennial Olympic Park. Every time we passed that ferris wheel, I made my mind slow down like it would if I was suspended 200 feet in the air over Atlanta. I got to spend time with two of my children, know some of the students I currently teach better, and now have some new faces to say hi to in the hallways. I watched these students trade pins, engage in conversation, speak with poise I never had as a teenager, make memories, and walk a lot of steps. DECA is an incredible organization filled with inspiring students building lifelong skills from the adults (especially their wonderful chapter advisor). Yet, as I listened to students practice, as I walked them back and forth to the convention center, as I sat with them at the awards ceremony and tasted Coke flavors from around the world at the World of Coke and marveled at the sea otters in the Georgia Aquarium, I realized that they are not the only ones learning. I am, too. After all, teenagers can teach us so much if we let them. It may not be Friday, but today, I put my feet up on the bus ride home in the wee hours of the morning to give you my ferris wheel thoughts. And what I know now from the top of the ferris wheel is that we’re going to be okay. These kids showed resilience, determination, goofiness, and empathy. They know how to win, but when they didn’t find success, they showed us they also know how to lose gracefully. I never did ride that ferris wheel in ATL, but I didn’t have to. Similarly, I didn’t have to look around for long at the group of teens I was with to know they’re pretty remarkable people. by @kelly.pace.211

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