Archives for September, 2008

  Although my mother wanted her only son to follow in her father's footsteps and become a medical doctor, after several attempts in other careers, I ...

That was a quick one. Five work days slipped by without much progress. We had some standardized testing and field trips that managed ...

Nature called me about 15 minutes before my alarm was set to go off this morning. Found myself awake at 5:40 AM and figured ...

Monday, you treated me well. Our school received a visit from the State Education department today as part of our charter renewal process. ...

For the record, I am not wishing myself a happy birthday.  That can wait until January when I turn a ripe 32 years of age. ...

It's just about bedtime.  I brushed my teeth and wondered where the day went.  I woke up around 6 AM, wrote a post about David ...

  [caption id="attachment_50" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="RIP 1962-2008"][/caption] Last friday, author David Foster Wallace hanged himself, committing suicide, leaving his fans with an ominous question mark.  Why?  A ...

I work at a charter school.  What exactly is a charter school?  The charter school concept merges the ideas of public and private education.  It's ...

Mundane Monday. A fine start to the week.  Things go relatively well, an unremarkable day in the classroom.  I manage to settle 8th period down.  They ...

I can't believe I haven't written about Friday. Frustrating Friday. My Friday started off fairly well. In fact, my first six periods of the ...

It's Thursday, and that can only mean one thing for a teacher: FRIDAY.  Friday, I'm in love.  Autopilot.  Cruise control.  Week's end. Finished an activity from ...

I put up this blog with the intention of creating fresh content every day based on my school year experiences.  We're a week in, and ...

Debt, I know you well.   I wish we never met.  If only I had a DeLorean capable of reaching the desired 88 miles per ...

It has been blazing hot in my classroom these past few days.  All the kids are complaining.  I can't blame them.  It is easily near ...

Well, I've finished out the first week of the new year.  Only 39 more weeks to go!  If the school year were a human gestation, ...

Students and teachers returned to most area schools Wednesday.  A few districts started on Tuesday, but my school year began with a half-day of eight ...

I just lost 11 pounds in about two hours.   It was a hot and sweaty first day back at school today, and when I got ...