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lassos, longhorns and literacy
i can’t even remember when i last posted, and i know the whole universe is hurtin’ because of it. don’t worry though, because i didn’t a.) jump off a cliff, b.) push a child off of a cliff and thus am facing multiple years in prison or c.) eat myself into a coma at buffalo wild wings. (PS: I am typing this while my kids take their benchmarks, and i just had to ask a kid if he was wearing a headband made out of a shoelace. “yeah,” he said. “why?”)
ANYWAY. i was drinking a margarita the other day and minding my own business when i began reflecting on the fact that we have dipped under the 100-day mark. what does that mean? it means that there are less than 100 days remaining, including spring break (hii), weekends, random professional development days, etc. in this whole thing. and by “thing”…
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to beat the shit out of each other; The wretched refuse of surrounding schools with solid discipline policies, Send these, the expelled, Tempest-tossed to me I unwillingly lift my pointer and pretend to have hope! Not like the brazen giant of the real world post-high…
read more »I’ve been wondering for a while if I should unleash here on this ole blog. I worried about the consequences of my carelessness and fretted about the fact that my bosses, my peers and any other curious onlooker could read this and judge it in any way they wanted. But after today, I think it’s…
read more »I NEED IT TO BE SPRING BREAK NOW. If you get a puppy and it chews something up, and then looks at you with sad eyes and puts its tail between its legs, for how long do you yell before you hug it and tell it you love it? If you don’t discipline it, does…
read more »….is the bleakest of months. I tried to think of the most dramatic opener I could, and that’s what I came up with. How’d I do? It’s hard to believe that a mere 20 days ago I was ringing in 2012 at a club in Ann Arbor with my new friend Phil, a 26-year-old…
read more »My Biggest Fear has evolved. It isn’t, surprisingly, early death by manic clowns with vampire fangs (specifically in the showers of the locker room at the PEC on campus in Wooster, Ohio), as it has been for a significant portion of my life. It isn’t even failure, which one would expect from this job. It…
read more »I don’t think I talk about my mom enough. So I’m going to, because she’s the best. She teaches 7th grade at a kind of down-and-out middle school (re: science is cut for reading, music is cut for test prep, etc.) in our hometown, and I happen to be typing this from her desk at…
read more »If I knew then (i.e., this summer, before unit planning) what I know now (haaaa), I would have planned a little differently. My first lessons wouldn’t be characterization and setting and topic sentences and inferences and transitions, as they were. Instead I would have carefully crafted a unit one plan consisting wholly of life skills…
read more »It’s the beginning of the second week of school and I just ate the second to last juice bar in the box (which I bought yesterday) and realized I couldn’t put off blogging any more. Every day I come home with about eight trillion things I want to write/scream/cry/laugh/punch a wall about and somewhere between…
read more »Yesterday a nationally-recognized dust storm swept through Phoenix and then less than 6 hours later (at 5:50 am, mind you) the fire alarm in my dorm went off. Two unrelated events that fit perfectly into the theme of my time here thus far: hella chaotic, slightly illogical and altogether almost laughably challenging. I read a…
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