In keeping with the tradition of giving an acronym to everything, TFA has given us EOY: End Of the Year.
EOY has come. The last day of school is 2 weeks from today. There are so many emotions and thoughts swirling and twirling in my mind right now, and I’m completely baffled that the end has come so fast.
I’ve reached a point with my blogging that I feel that every train of thought I have I’ve had before, and everything I want to write about, I’ve already written about. That’s why I haven’t been posting a lot; I feel like I have nothing new to say.
I can’t quite look back on the year yet, because I have to stay in the present; it’s NOT over yet, and these last 2 weeks have the potential to be (I hate to use a TFA word) transformational for me and my students. And I…
First of all, happy Star Wars day! May the 4th be with you! My kids are so done, and I’m running out of ways to motivate them. The 7th grade teachers are giving a cross-curricular semester project, and all of the kids just want to work. What I’m doing in class is reviewing different topics…
read more »I can’t believe it’s May. I can’t believe I’ve made it this far alive. The fact that there are only 15 more days of school left doesn’t make it any easier to come to school, though. Some anecdotes: I’ve started playing a “90′s pop” playlist on www.jango.com during class, and my kids won’t admit it, but they…
read more »I’m going to be in charge of yearbook again next year, and my principal wants us to do a video yearbook. Does anyone have any experience with creating/producing video yearbooks? Does anyone know where to find information about it?
read more »Are those rambunctious babies of yours getting you down? Are you losing your voice just trying to talk over them? Then look no further, because I have THE answer for you! Just kidding. I do, however, have something that happened to work for me last week, and I’m hoping will continue to work. Maybe it’ll…
read more »One of the biggest things TFA claims to fight against is the myth of meritocracy in the U.S.: the belief that anyone can be successful/climb the proverbial ladder if they only work hard enough, and that those who are not successful must be lazy and unmotivated. This is a classist, very dangerous view, and TFA…
read more »It’s the end of the year, and I feel my school slowly starting to unravel. The hallways are crawling with drama. Drama everywhere. My principal said he’s been up to his ears in drama every day. I’m not sure whether all of the students are just sick of each other, or they’re just bored. Probably both.…
read more »Two of my classes today were completely out of hand. I didn’t see these classes all of last week because of Benchmarks, and I knew it’d be difficult to reign them in, but today was ridiculous. My plan for tomorrow is to put them under martial law, basically: desks in rows and silently working on…
read more »Disclaimer: This post has very little to do with teaching. My kids are fascinated with the fact that I’m single. They absolutely cannot wrap their minds around the fact that I don’t have a husband/boyfriend. It’s like I’m incomplete without one. I mean, they are obsessed. If we ever have a spare moment, they want…
read more »Usually when I go for a stretch of not writing on this blog, it’s because I have either not enough to say or too much to say. At this point, I’m not sure if I have nothing to say or everything to say, so I’ll try to fall somewhere in the middle. We have 31…
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