January 2013
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December 2012
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November 2012
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Happy/Grateful/Anxious/Nervous
The tropics have come to Connecticut. The production of Anna in the Tropics I am currently directing opens tomorrow night and I am feeling a mixture of happy, grateful, anxious and nervous. I’m happy because this cast is phenomenal. They were so dedicated for the entire rehearsal period and their acting is some of the best I have seen at the high school level. I may be biased on that last...
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October 2012
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September 2012
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Sep 26th
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SOTC: Freshmen Need Vocabulary Help
This week I gave an open notebook vocabulary quiz to my freshmen. Granted the words were SAT words, but I wanted to see what they were capable of. Not one student in either class, that’s about 60 students, got above a nine. A 9 out of 15 was the high score on an open notebook vocabulary quiz. Good thing I have my work cut out for me. What I noticed though was that they were bombing the...
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August 2012
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Aug 21st
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Next Year's Schedule
It seems I have moved to Freshmen, although I am teaching two upperclass courses.  I’m excited for something new!  And I’m always looking to improve my African American Literature course.  This will be my 4th year teaching it.  But of course, teaching in an inner city, this is bound to change at any moment.  Such is life.   Period 1 - English Lab (9th grade) Period 2 - Duty or Free ...
Aug 6th
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Aug 6th
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July 2012
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June 2012
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May 2012
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“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope...”
–   F. Scott Fitzgerald (via faeriepetals)
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April 2012
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March 2012
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Mar 10th
Quick Vent
Having taught in both the upper crust and the destitute districts in a county with one of the highest achievement gaps in the country, I am always shocked to keep discovering the amazing differences between urban education and suburban education. I was raised in a great neighborhood and my old high school is frequently ranked among Newsweek’s top 100 high schools in the nation. I did my...
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January 2012
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Shamelessly excited.
I’m so excited for Shameless: Season 2 in twenty minutes!
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December 2011
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November 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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U.S. Teachers’ Hours Among World’s Longest →
world-shaker: ohmuffins: 1,097: Average number of hours U.S. teachers spend per year on instruction. Students across the U.S. are enjoying or getting ready for summer vacation, but teachers may be looking forward to the break even more. American teachers are the most productive among major developed countries, according to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data from 2008...
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