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Confessions from the Couch

My adventures as a young urban teacher

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OH-EM-GEE

My student’s have been walking around saying Oh-Em-Gee! I’ve taken up notes with it spelled both ways OMG and O-Em-Gee! Oh,my goodness, gee-willikers, golly-gosh . . . . aw, ***! I just checked my district email. I don’t know why. I just felt an urge. Read More...

Confession

Last week was a really really hard week. We had a bit of school violence. . . fighting among girls has gotten out of hand. I had made the decision to leave. It was final. This would be my last year in My District. But I keep thinking, is it the wrong Read More...

Graduate School Money

Is there money available for graduate school in education? I don’t want to take anymore student loans. I don’t want to quit my job to complete the degree. However, the only thing that I have run into are loans and fellowships. The fellowships want someone Read More...

A compliment of sorts

I was out of school on Thursday of last week for Professional Development. I decided to make it into a long weekend and made an appointment with a specialist/surgeon on Friday. I returned to school with a note from the sub saying that my students were Read More...

WillyNilly MakeUp Work

In a previous blog post , I went off on a tangent about the makeup work policy. To further understand it, I created a commentary on my districts Make Up Work policy. The podcast went a little longer than I had planned (6 minutes), so here I basic outline Read More...

The Willy Nilly Make Up Policy

Podcast #4 In a previous blog post , I went off on a tangent about the makeup work policy. To further understand it, I created a commentary on my districts Make Up Work policy. The podcast went a little longer than I had planned (6 minutes), so here I Read More...

Going After It

A few weeks ago, I had a long conversation with my mother . . .she has notice somethings (mood, behaviors) and they were causing her to worry. During this conversation, she told me that she had always admired me. “What?” I responded. “I’ve always admired Read More...

Dating Game Over

Well, I’ve moved on from dating. Nothing came of that experience. It was just something to entertain myself for a bit. But now, I have to get back to serious things . . .taking control and steering things in the right direction. It was nice to be distracted Read More...

Protected: Something New: Interracial Dating

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Post Revisions in WP

So, I wrote this LONG post about interracial dating 2 hours ago. Its gone b/c I click published after having a server error. I know that WordPress autosaves posts. My issue is where do I find them. I’ve looked up and down filezilla. I’ve looked at all Read More...

Protected: Personal: Interracial Dating

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Jobs are on the line, pt 2

Our state just passed legislation that a significant portion, (can’t say how much b/c it’ll reveal my location,) of teacher evaluation scores will now come from the students test scores. Teachers are all riled up here b/c they don’t feel it takes into Read More...

Love or Hate

While watching TV show, I heard the following question, “Am I supposed to love this job or hate it?” Everyone knows I am having the the 5th year blues . . .a co-work suggested that it was just the 5th year dip, a time when you begin to question yourself Read More...

Textbooks in the Classroom

At the beginning of the school year, the administrators of my wonderful school district decided that no textbooks would be issued to students in Social Studies classrooms with the exception of tested courses. The district’s plan was to save money on the Read More...

Nightmares

I had two nightmares last night, back to back! The first one was about the Black history program. I know it is symptomatic of my lack of control over it. I started planning the program back in December. The guest speaker was a friend of Dr. King’s and Read More...
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