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Lara Searcy

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Flirting Lessons

by Jasmine Guillory (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 20, 2026 05:25PM

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

by Jesse Andrews (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 18, 2026 06:49PM

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THE First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher, 5th Edition (Book & DVD)

by Harry K. Wong

bookshelves: nsuenged, professional-pd, currently-reading

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Mar 15, 2026 08:04AM

Lara’s Notes & Highlights

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

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That casual “Hey, we’re friends, it’s normal for friends to have lunch together, but I’m glad it’ll just be the two of us” kinda thing.

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Lara’s Quotes

“What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.”
― Penny Kittle, Write Beside Them: Risk, Voice, and Clarity in High School Writing

tags: writing-life

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“Writing is more fun when you have a partner, so find friends who share your research interests. Two authors can write faster, can complement expertise, can help with hard decisions, and understand context of decisions made.”
― Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

tags: collaboration, writing

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“One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

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“And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don’t have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it’s not natural to want to die.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

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“Writing involves many [acts] tasks, not just generating text”
― Paul J. Silvia, How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing

tags: writing-process

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