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That's right.  Tomorrow i go back to school.  And with that begins my continuous lesson planning.  This year i actually have some money to spend on books.  Yay!!!  So here is my question to you guys: what book (or books) should my high schoolers read?  I am completely open to ideas and would love to hear yours.

Some of the books have/will be reading ( Read more... )

I wanted to make people aware of two events that are going on during the Olympics with regards to China's actions towards TIbet and Darfur.

1)  The first is Candle For Tibet, which occurs the day before the opening ceremonies of the Olympics.  People around the world will be lighting candles in their homes, workplaces, etc. on August 7th at 9pm in ( Read more... )

I just checked my proposal at donorschoose.org cause i haven't looked at it for about a week and it's fully funded!  That means that i get to buy a bunch of children's books to start a library of them for my kids to take to Goddard with them.  I'm totally psyched about it because all of the money came from donations (if you were one of the donors, ( Read more... )

So Andy and I are back from our fabulous week in Portland with Barb.  It was SO good to see my roomie again (two years is way too long to go without seeing each other...)  We did all kinds of fun things including, but of course not limited to ( Read more... )

 Now that i'm finished with summer school, i'm trying not to think about school for a while.  But before i start doing that i wanted to give you guys a heads up about a great website that lets teachers write proposals for materials they need for their classrooms and people donate to help them get those materials.  I have a proposal up for my ( Read more... )

So summer school is finally over.  And my students didn't make it easy.  One of them left me with a wonderful moral dilemma.  My session of summer school officially ended at 1:00 today.  One of my students emailed me his research paper at 1:28 today.  That is the ONLY thing he had to do during summer school.  So here's the question: do i tell the ( Read more... )

I wrote a whole post, but i just deleted it by accident.  Argh!!!

So here's what i wrote in a nutshell:

School is so busy and taking up a ton of time.  I don't know how many seniors we'll have graduating, but since they do so on Wednesday, i guess i'll know soon.

Andy and i are good, but it's hard sometimes because we are so different from each other ( Read more... )

"Friendship is acting out God's love for people in tangible ways.  We were made to represent the love of God in each other's lives, so that each person we walk through life with has a more profound sense of God's love for them.  Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other ( Read more... )

 "In our rush to reform education, we have forgotten a simple truth: reform will never be achieved by renewing appropriations, restructuring schools, rewriting curricula, and revising texts if we continue to demean and dishearten the human resource called the teacher on whom so much depends.  Teachers must be better compensated, freed from ( Read more... )