Another post I wrote and never posted. This I emailed to myself November 16th, right before the Thanksgiving break:
I need to re-read How to Teach so Kids can Learn. Every time I go into a conference (today during my conferene period, today after school, and then set up another for Friday) I feel I’m [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 9, 2009
On Parent Conferences
March 8, 2009
On Resolutions and Expectations
I found another lost post. I wrote it the week (or so) before school started, then must have completely forgotten about it because I wrote a new post that I actually posted on here. Since the beginning-of-the-year stuff doesn’t really matter (and I wrote about it anyway, even though with a different, not-quite-so-morbid tone), I [...]
March 7, 2009
On Bi-Polar Thinking
I found a post I wrote a while back and never posted. I figured I’d go ahead and throw it out here, just for grins. I probably wrote this in December or January.
Sometimes I wonder if I just barely made “sane.” As in, you need a 70 or above to score medication, and I got [...]
March 5, 2009
Teaching is not my calling
I’ve been reading John Ortberg’s If You Want To Walk On Water, You’ve Got To Get Out Of The Boat. Chapter 3 is about your calling, what God wants you to do with the gifts He gave you.
God wants me to realize teaching is not my calling. And He’s not shy about beating me over [...]
March 2, 2009
On TAKS
Tomorrow is the Reading/English Language Arts Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills.
That’s about all I’m going to say about that, because, really, at this point words fail me.
However, someone else has better words than I. Please read the following posts by Not Quite Grown Up (she says it better than I ever could):
Testing frustration
Reading testing!
Who’s [...]
March 1, 2009
On The End of The Grading Period
I spent most of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday emailing back and forth with a student athlete’s mother.
I don’t want to get into the details of WHY I’M RIGHT, but trust me. I am. And she’s wrong.
But I caved. The student’s principal was involved into the ridiculous conversation, and the parent even went up to school [...]
