April 2012
118 posts
1 tag
1 tag
March 2012
62 posts
3 tags
I've done everything I can for now that was my...
And I’ve done half of the things that were your responsibility.
This is now no longer my problem.
5 tags
Bad Richard...
So I called a student “irritating” to his face today, and not in a joking way. We were doing a lot cleanup today, and people were all joking around and having fun. I don’t know where my head was because I was moving everywhere and trying not to lose kids, and he was splashing and fake-splashing water on people from his water bottle.
Now, that is not even close to as actually...
3 tags
Literacy - the ability to use printed and written...
This is the definition of literacy from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy.
Have you ever been physically attracted to a definition before? Because it’s happening to me.
2 tags
Sports Night - What Kind of Day Has It Been?
5 tags
4 tags
Just watching this episode of Sports Night, and the one character is happy because it had apparently just been decided that Pluto was not going to be demoted as a planet.
I just realized how old this show is.
Also, they just talked about the Orioles. Weird sense of pride.
1 tag
1 tag
Paradoxes of the Finland Phenomenon →
1 tag
How to make a group of juniors instantly upset...
girlwithalessonplan:
“You have to dress up for this speech.”
Try “I need you to write me a paragraph…” with seniors. I’ve never seen such ice in children’s eyes.
2 tags
2 tags
4 tags
Rethinking the U.S. Department of Education →
I don’t really know about the whole “bringing the nation’s best thinkers together” thing, because I don’t believe that just having a whole bunch of smart people in a room (or “Center”) really contributes to actual, organizational effects. A major piece that seems to be missing from here is this: Who’s actually running all of these good ideas that...
2 tags
oathovoblivion:
themonkeyninja:
ihopericksantorum:
I hope Rick Santorum gets his bending taken away by the Avatar.
wow. thats a lot of hate right there
WHO IS THE AVATAR THOUGH!?
I’m going with Anderson Cooper. Who’s with me?
3 tags
2 tags
1 tag
2 tags
Even my students are telling me to go to sleep.
Student: Please, you look so old and ugly oh my gosh.
Student: Just tired ugly. Not ugly, ugly.
Student: You're puttin' a lot of life into that school.
Me: It happens.
Student: It shouldn't, you look forty.
Student: Mr. Blissett, um you're becoming a bit of an eyesore.
Student: You have that five o'clock shadow - only old people have that.
Student: Syke do as you please, but when you leave and I run into you in 20 years and you're all shriveled and ancient at 40-something, Imma just say shoulda got some sleep.
5 tags
Reading "The Death and Life of the Great American...
I’m about halfway through this one, and it’s pretty good. I didn’t think I was going to agree with it at first, given the subtitle: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. But actually reading what she’s trying to say, it makes a lot more sense and is so much more than the title says.
(Note that no, I am not a testing-pusher or a huge advocate of choice and/or...
1 tag
I lost my phone.
Me: I should retrace my steps through all of the places I've been today.
Me: I went to this couch, and I went to my bed.
Me:
Me:
Me:
Me: Wow, that's depressing.
This past week has made me exhausted, mentally and...
So I just spent an hour scrolling through the “GPOY” and “me” tags of the attractive people whom I follow on Tumblr, you know, because it’s the most healthy way I could be spending this time.
Some of you need to give yourselves more credit for your looks. Yes, I’m talking about you. Who? YOU. With the face.
1 tag
“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
– Albert Einstein (via jottingmatt)
