Really, I’m not one to whine about things. Not entirely openly, that is. But, today is one of those days when I wonder just how everything will get done and what state I’ll be in by the end of it. How much I have to give to my work and my students and my staff [...]
Read This: Not to be all bad-blogger-y on you, but I really have been responding via email to comments. They’ve been incredible on the post about what parents want from schools and several teacher friends of mine have commented that they’re still lurking to read what parents are writing. Skip That: There is a parent [...]
(The rest of the post title is “Nor Do You Care” to be tongue in cheek, but that was too long. If you don’t care, don’t read. If you don’t care but want to tell me that you don’t care, don’t bother.) (Originally, I started writing about issues that parents of students have/want/need and then [...]
There’s not much that stumps me in my job and I’ve embraced humility enough to know that I don’t always know the answers to the complicated messes that introduce themselves to me like a stranger at the grocery store. “Oh, hello. I’m the awkward beef cow tongue sitting in plastic wrap in the frozen meat [...]
It was a whirlwind day and yet it was entirely typical of what happens at our high school. In most high schools, probably. I just thought it was worthwhile to put this day down as an official mark that this is what regularly happens. First thing in the morning my secretary called me on the [...]
In celebration of the Chinese New Year Valentine’s Day I decided to stay completely OFFLINE for the weekend because I just about can’t even take the ridiculous amount of posts, pictures and updates that people write. I mean it, people. Some of you are downright jerks with all that noise. “Oh, I was spoiled rotten [...]
How can anyone who hasn’t seen the sun in days stop themselves from feeling blue? Or gray? Or from hurting the nearest kitten that comes close to their yard? I do not know. But it has made me Super Cranky which is like Super Superior but angrier and with clenched fists. It’s making me engage [...]
This past week more than a few friends have reached out to me to ask how I feel about this new show on the CW called “Life Unexpected” and the last time this happened was when “Juno” came out. It is strange how I am the poster child in my circle for getting a measurement [...]
This morning I got to sit in on an interview with a student for a story being written by a reporter after I, in what is far too normal, opened my mouth to talk about my students. It is an occurrence that happens often once you get me talking about education. There is no reason [...]
I’m embarrassed to admit something: I haven’t updated my laptop in a year. Yes. A whole year. That’s because I would try to do the normal, daily work things on it and I could function. I haven’t updated to the newest email for work. My iTunes was frigging ANCIENT and my version of Safari and [...]
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