Do you know you can fancy yourself something ( Read more... )

Yeah, who am I, I bet you can't even tell me that much ( Read more... )

I'm content today. Content is a wonderful emotion. Too bad there's not a drug that makes you 'content'. But working towards it makes it last longer, I suppose ( Read more... )

I had my Open House last night. It's the first year where no parent has tried to get their child out of my class, most of the families showed up, and it was all very happy ( Read more... )

I mean, is that ALL it takes to be superintendent of curriculum and instruction, the ability to speak vocabulary that elementary teachers are unfamiliar with. The WORDS that were being tossed around yesterday....paradigm shift(GAK), caveat, manipulation of curriculum, universal access, disingenuous ( Read more... )

had a ranting post here about teachers as asexual beings, and decided against it. The whole reason why I keep deleting and undeleting journal entries is that this journal was supposed to serve as a reflective piece for my thesis. Whatever, I am trying to keep it about teaching, but it's not the same as when I used to work retail. You know, I ( Read more... )

One of my angels was sitting this morning with his head in his hands, while the rest of the kiddles were doing their daily language drills.I called him up to my desk, gave him a hug, and he started crying. He told me he was grounded for a week. When I asked why, he said because he fell asleep in the bathtub this morning and his stepmom got mad at ( Read more... )

e.e. cummings - may i feel said he ( Read more... )

Day ten of 180, first homework due, 3 out of 20 completed it, what i really was blown away by was the excuses. I mean , I gave them a half hour in the morning to check it over, and they still handed it in half done, part done, some done, and the excuses were all the same, I didn't understand, we were busy...ad nauseum. So, the only way to get them ( Read more... )

Like my mama used to say, you have to suffer pain for beauty. My kids all noticed my nails, Good Lord, were they that hideous before ( Read more... )