So don’t say you weren’t warned. This week my family went to Tennessee for my husband’s grandmother’s funeral. She was a lovely person, and though I didn’t know her well and had only seen her a few times, she was well loved and will be greatly missed. Going to her funeral reminded me of my…
I have a student whom I just love (well, a lot of them, actually, but I’m going to focus on just the one today). I have taught her for three years. I teach in a small school, and sometimes that happens. When she was a ninth grader, she let me know she didn’t like to…
I am curious as to your policies regarding late work. Will you take a moment and answer this poll (if you are so inclined)? Feel free to elaborate on your answers in the comments if you wish. The poll expires Monday evening.
I adopted a word at Save the Words: magistricide. magistricide: noun; the killing of one’s master or teacher Etymology: Latin, magister, teacher or master + –cide from caedere, to kill. Usage: If Mrs. Huff doesn’t quit assigning so much work, I’m entertaining magistricide as a viable option. I have vowed to use this word as…
Bill Genereux has an interesting post about what he calls “The True Digital Divide.” He discusses in detail something I touched on in my presentation at GCTE. If we truly want students to engage with the technology and use the Web 2.0 tools available to them, we have to be leaders. We have to use…
I have been thinking about planning and new teachers quite a bit lately. When I was a new teacher, everything I taught was new to me, and I didn’t have enough time to plan. I think a lot of schools are a similar schedule: six periods a day, teachers teach five and have one planning…
I was in the car the other day, returning home after Christmas shopping, and Terry Gross’s interview of Stanford law professor, founding board member of Creative Commons, former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and geek Lawrence Lessig came on the radio. I wasn’t able to finish listening to the interview, but it’s since…
I enjoy Taylor Mali’s poetry:
I knew at some point during the semester, I would be too overwhelmed to blog much, and that point came at the junction of creating the English department budget for next year and keeping up with grad school. Some things I’m thinking about: assessment and professional development, planning a curriculum map/scope and sequence for my…
I hope I don’t embarrass Megan by announcing here that she was the recipient of the Class Act award. Class Act is given by 11Alive (WXIA), a local NBC affiliate, based on a nomination by a student, parent, or colleague. 11Alive has not updated their Class Act blog to reflect Megan’s award, but that’s probably…
