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  • So proud

    In my school, we don't have homerooms, we have families. I mean, that's what they're really called. We've got about 10-13 kids who are ours--and each others', and we meet with them for an hour or so every Monday. Part…

  • I've learned

    So far this semester, the lessons about where I am as a teacher have been numerous . I have discovered that semi-floating has not, in fact, made me organized, but has made me run in between the bull-pen (all-teacher off…

  • Jerks

    I have been contemplating the jerky student for the past week. This is the student I longed to rescue as an ingenuous student teacher--the same one that seasoned mentors encouraged me to get rid of so I could do my job.…

  • It's probably a combination

    A good chunk of one of my classes seems to think they're smarter than me. They whine about assignments, talk during class activities, and act like nothing I teach makes any sense. Could this be because . . . . . . I a…

  • Sick days like a pro

    Now that I have almost no sick days to take, of course I'm getting good at taking them. Or so I thought. I snuck in at 6 AM yesterday to photocopy ye olde busy work--which is supposed to make the young ones want me nev…

  • Letter responses and ensuing propositions

    Alas, there were no stunning revelations in the letters yesterday, and the ones that one might interpret as taking "my side" did nothing to balance the ones that straight-up attacked me. Well, the one. One might wonder…

  • Adopt an Ace Update

    Some 3 months ago, I put together a little strategy I called Adopt an Ace, wherein the failing half of my class adopted members of the passing half and partners worked together to pull up their collective scores. I hadn…

  • Mixture

    It occurs to me that some of these heathens may never realize the lengths I've gone to for them. There are a few, I know, who blithely overlook the mounds of unscored assignments that periodically spurt off of the growi…

  • Trials and tribulations

    Trial I have been trying to rephrase my disciplinary moves as instructed by the all-wise Robert J. Mackenzie, and I'm pleased with the results. I'm still kind of shaky with it, as I am so used to arguing and threatening…

  • Off to a gallumphing start

    Though I shirked my grading duties over break quite spectacularly over the under-two-week-long break, I thought I had planned pretty tightly under the circumstances (read: two fewer instruction days plus one less weekend…