It has been one week since Meredith Moriak wrote an article about the eBook I put together and placed on Amazon.com. Well, have I learned a great deal from “publishing” my first eBook. I have written an eBook on my year as a school teacher. I never intended to put it out for public consumption, […]
If you are arriving here as a result of the article in the MRT thank you for dropping by. I appreciate it and encourage you to look around. If you are wondering what the heck I am talking about, here is the link to the article in the MRT about my eBook. Meredith did a […]
Yes indeed school is out for summer, and not a day too soon if you ask me. I thought this was a very long year indeed. Some of was great, some was not so great! But all-in-all the year was good! Here are some of the highlights and some lowlights too: Our school finished […]
So I have this theory on teaching. It goes along with the calendar to a large degree. Have you ever wondered why teachers complain so much, but come back to teaching year-after-year? I am the worst offender. I complain and think about other things to do (and I still am) but here I am every […]
You know there are days when I wonder what in the heck am I wasting my time for? I teach school for a living, yes I draw my food money from this job. And contrary to what one principal told me, I wouldn’t do it for free. But I also feel a “calling” to teach […]
I had the honor of subbing for one of our assistant principals yesterday at my Junior High. I am still exhausted. You talk about a job where you have to be all things to all people, this is it! Sometimes our AP’s (assistant principals) have to be out and it is best to have someone […]
This week in Midland, Texas we had two suicides of young teen age girls. It is tragedy beyond words. One was sixteen and the other was 14 I think. So many reasons not to do this: Too young, Too much in front of them, Too much to live for, Too much they don’t know to […]
When I was a kid I never liked to do anything that wasn’t “fun” and my students are no different. But I also didn’t like feeling as if I was wasting my time, doing something that had no real meaning. Okay I did watch Gilligan’s Island, but come on, who didn’t back in the seventies? […]
The big idea today in education seems to be that we need to tie teacher pay and evaluation to student test scores. I used to be a big fan of this. I remember when I thought this was how you should do it. […]