One of the big adjustments in leaving a prep position with periods for a self-contained class is the change in the time I have to work with kids. I had gotten used to discrete 45-minute segments, but now have the whole day with the same class teaching multiple subjects, etc. I still don’t feel like […]

Photo Credit: from Always 13’s photostream on Flickr.com\ Overall, this was a hard week for a couple of reasons. First, I spent the prior weekend at a conference/traveling, which was fun but takes a bit out of me. Next, halfway through the week (Wednesday to be precise) we went to minimum days for parent conferences, […]

In a prior post, I shared an overview of what my site was planning for our reform efforts. This garnered some comment, including a whole post in Tom Hoffman’s Tuttle SVC blog, about how plans to use writing as the platform for our reform of student work was mis-aligned. I’d guess that most folks response […]