Tomorrow I’m going to come back to yesterday’s post and have some constructive, open-minded things to say. That’s tomorrow. I need another day to remember who I am, tap into that empathic side I’m cultivating. Tonight, tonight is for the Brainery. For a long time now, my friend Mopsy has been telling me about taking [...]
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The Eternal Sunshine of the Creative Mind
Posted in choose your own adventure, learning, out and about, slice of life, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, things I love, tagged and now for something completely different, choose your own adventure, creativity, learning, out and about, SOLSC, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, things I love on 29 March 2012 | 10 Comments »
What Would Alan Funt Say?
Posted in choose your own adventure, good neighbors, homophobia, learning, prejudice, teaching, things that please me, tagged choose your own adventure, good neighbors, homophobia, learning, prejudice, teaching, things I love on 12 June 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I hope he’d be as happy as I am. I haven’t had television since 2002, so I miss out on plenty of stuff. Usually this bothers me not in the slightest. And now, of course, I can watch TV online, so I’m not as completely behind the times as I might be. I suspect, however, [...]
Have a Slice!
Posted in learning, slice of life, teaching, where we're from, tagged learning, SOLSC, teaching, where we're from on 14 March 2011 | 6 Comments »
… oh , you know, because that’s my totally lame pun for today, Pi Day! I had three great teachers when I was a kid. My third grade teachers. It was a funky, team-taught class held in a wonderland that had been the school’s cafeteria that, when it was renovated for this education experiment that I got [...]
Lasting Impressions
Posted in containing myself, out and about, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, things I love, tagged containing myself, guilty pleasures, learning, out and about, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, things I love, things that make me blush on 8 December 2010 | 14 Comments »
Yesterday was my last day in the classroom. My replacement — a really wonderful young man who will be so great with my (his) students — came to observe the class and he took over today. It was strange not to take the shorter commute this morning and head for class. I wasn’t sad about [...]
All Good Things …
Posted in choose your own adventure, full disclosure?, love, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, work, tagged change, choose your own adventure, full disclosure?, love, teaching, thank-you-thank-you-thank-you, work on 21 November 2010 | 2 Comments »
I haven’t written much about my class this fall. And part of that is because I haven’t written much of anything this fall, but also because I’ve known since before my class started that I would be giving it up, and I’ve been struggling with that. I’m not leaving my class for all the reasons [...]
