wonder kids and …not so much

I had brand new students today – something that hasn’t happened in a long time.   Of course I’ve spent 2 Aprils here, which means two new classes of first graders in elementary after the initial newness of arriving – but they’re pretty predictable, the first graders.  Start from scratch.  But at my one school I [...]

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get it together!!

I know it’s like a cardinal sin of blogging to blog about how much you blog.  Or that you haven’t blogged.  Or that you promise you’re gonna start blogging from now on, like as if anyone’s life would be worse off if they couldn’t read your brain-to-internet dribble on a daily basis.  But let me [...]

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heke takes on elementary

Today concludes (..as far as I know?) my two day stint as an elementary school English teacher. A week ago I had a meeting with two people from my one elementary school that lasted about 10 minutes – from that I had to generate six classes (that’s about 5 hours of standing-in-front-of-the-class time) about myself, [...]

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