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  • I must grade

    ...And perhaps listing everything that has piled up on me will make it all seem possible. Lyrics starters I will take up tomorrow. Lyrics starters I took up last week. Culture starters I took up two weeks ago. Tests I …

  • Progress report

    I found myself baffled by the numbers after the first Spanish II test last week. While about 40% of my first period class found themselves in the 80-99% range (thus constituting the largest "clump" of grades in that cla…

  • Grading made uneasy

    Since Sr. Edwards threatened to take away our zeros and made us read that Tom Marzano book, I've been forced to reconsider my grading practices. These days, between the Science Goddess proclaiming a blissful relationshi…

  • Essentials

    Now I've known about essential questions since probably my Ed Psych days in college. They were considered, according to my research, the best way to organize an interdisciplinary unit. The whole thing sounded grand at …

  • *MY* Autopilot Pen

    Inspired both by the ever-intrepid Happy Chyck AND the ungodly gob of side projects I have unfortunately brought upon myself, I would like to invent a pen that took over for me when I wrote the same thing on these side p…

  • Zeros--not "I"!

    "Now you can go ahead and tell me if you think I'm crazy. It might be you think that I've finally gone over the edge, and you can just tell me that. Travis* already told me this morning he thinks I'm crazy." I don't k…

  • Projecting

    I have a great time coming up with the things, but I hate grading them. I get enough subjective, rubric-based grading in English classes after all. Still, they're the kind of assignments I loved doing in school, and I …

  • After school

    First, an after-school haiku: Tutored, planned, printed, finally graded those tests, ate soup with a fork. I find I get almost nothing done when I get home anymore. There was a time that I came home and made intricat…

  • Accomplished

    Have homework pretty much copied for the rest of the week (at least for fourth period). Updated online weekly lesson plans (though file uploader froze so there are not convenient links to everything as yet and it occu…

  • How I've changed

    I have made some important discoveries since student teaching. I remember the day before midterm grades were due, I stayed until about 6 letting a couple of kids try to make up work to pass. Vandett's reaction amounted…