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Somewhere between Santa and Social Media
Dear Students-of-This-Year's-5th-Grade-Class: I wish you were not using facebook. Maybe this opinion proves I turned into a fuddy-duddy the moment I turned 39. Maybe it is a result of the Santa-fiasco. We were discussing the Boston Tea Party in one of my classes when a student became skeptical. ...
Thank You, “Fort Worth, Texas Magazine!”
I couldn't be more excited about this wonderful book review in the October 2012 issue of Fort Worth, Texas Magazine! Would you believe it took a friend from Arizona to find it and let me know about it first? ...
What Didn’t Work: 1st Six Weeks
My idea with this wall was to cover it with a constant rotation of butcher paper, upon which would be scribbled our thinking maps, graphs, word studies, predictions and blah, blah, blah. I was going to need so much butcher paper, I thought, that I didn’t want to be walking down to the ...
What Worked: 1st Six Weeks
When I was a kid in elementary school, I talked during class. A lot. I must have thought all those Ns on my report card just stood for Nika. Teachers wrote my name on the board with multiple checks everyday. I never recall a single conversation with any teacher about my citizenship grade. The only ...
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