Educational Rant: Busy Work The Wind, the Notes, and My Rising Blood Pressure I’m sitting here getting mad.My daughter is outside, trying to take pictures of her math notes with her school laptop. The wind keeps blowing the pages around, and she’s getting frustrated. I finally ask what she’s doing, and she says she has... Continue Reading →
Bullying
When my daughter was in 5th or 6th grade she was getting called a certain derogatory name due to the fact that her body was developing quite early. I recall her coming home and telling me her experience and her feelings around this. She was hurt and confused. She couldn’t understand why this girl said... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- School Lunch
Educational Rant- School LunchAfter 3 days and one week of school, there have been a lot of opinions, assumptions, rumors- whatever you want to call them- about the new lunch program. A brief lesson: Senate Bill 4 was passed this past spring to support free breakfast and lunch for ALL students in New Mexico. Los... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- Success
Success. We talk about success all the time, especially in school. Success is getting your assignments done. It is getting an A on a test. It is advancing to the next level. It is graduating from high school, college, kindergarten(whatever). Success has been defined by income and status. If we see someone who has a... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant: Comfort Zone and Coronavirus
I am towards the end of the second week of Coronacation from school. Well, it is actually the 3rd week because we had spring break before the enforced hiatus from school. Did I struggle the 1st week- couldn't focus, couldn't get motivated, kind of hid away from the world and was sort of in shock... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- connection
A word keeps popping up in my life lately. Connection. I googled it, here is what I found: 1. a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else. .. "the connections between social attitudes and productivity." 2. the action of linking one thing with another..." connection to the Internet." 4. The... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- Education
I was recently at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe, the state capital. I was there to speak to the education committee about education. I was there with about two to three hundred other educators. I stood there listening to my colleagues from across the state talk about education. Some were anecdotal, some provided data, others... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- Work
I took the day off today. I had to take my boys to the High School to get them registered for the upcoming school year. I am sitting at a table with my 8th-grade son and his soon-to-be advisor. She looks over his middle school transcript and sees that he is not doing very well... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- TIME
It is Friday about 3:30 pm. The students ran out of here at 2:42 when the bell rang. I am sitting at my desk trying to get some work done. I am finishing my lesson plans at the same time I am putting grades in the computer. I have some music on to help me... Continue Reading →
Fear
I am not afraid. OK. I lie. I am afraid. But I am not afraid to be afraid. Huh? Fear can be debilitating. It can keep a person from moving forward and doing something. It's like when a spider crawls across the floor, and I jump up on the furniture and scream, and then I... Continue Reading →
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