A little philosophical pontification: We don't know what will happen.We all have feelings about it. No one's feelings are wrong. It's just how we feel. And those feelings are driving decisions and reactions. Fear is prevalent- fear about education failing our kids. Fear about people getting sick. Fear that we may not be able to... 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-Together
It's 1st period and next week is the last week of school! I am chatting with my students about learning. This time of year I do a lot of thinking about what worked and what didn't. I also start thinking about what I will do next year. I am talking to my students about work...how... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- Guilt…or, in other words, teacher appreciation week
It's teacher appreciation week. So far I have received two emails- one from the principal and one from the superintendent. There is a staff luncheon planned for Thursday and a breakfast too. A while back I was watching an interview with a fellow colleague, a teacher. The interviewer thanked her for her service. I sat... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant-Pokemon Cards
This is from about 100 years ago when I first started thinking about this shit: We Don’t Want them to Cry Recently I asked why my son wasn’t allowed to bring his Pokemon cards to school. Well, he is allowed to bring them for sharing, but not for recess or trading. This all goes along... 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- Trophies
My youngest son played t-ball a couple of years ago. He didn’t really play. He kept the dugout safe though. He made sure the dugout bench was warm by laying on it. He kept track of the equipment too. When asked to go out to the field to play, he refused because it was too... Continue Reading →
Educational Rant- The Prize
I spent a week, well, actually five days filling out a form. Every night I had to fill in the title, the author, and the amount of time spent reading on this form. It was called a reading log. It wasn’t my reading log, it was my kindergartner’s. But, since my K-Kid couldn’t write yet... Continue Reading →
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