5/10/12   It’s my first full week in a very long time. No random field trips, no random modified schedules for testing or nada. It has been a little long, but the blur will finish with Friday. Pros Teacher Appreciation Week = some heart-touching cards from students, food, and general happiness. Just received the final…

4/19/12 I needed to write about this from Wednesday. I can’t remember if I ever wrote about my other male student who proclaimed his love for a female student in my class via descriptive paragraph. If not, ask me about it. It was HILARIOUS.   On Wednesday, they had to bring in two rough drafts…

4/19/12   I had a check-in with my AP yesterday, and we were talking about my recent data over a poetry quiz.   Her question – where the scores lower or where you were expecting?   Me – lower, of course. It has been really frustrating this semester because I know they are higher than…

4/17/12   6 a.m. alarm goes off. 3 snoozes later, and Pandora “Just Dance” station begins to play 1 song later, and body rolls out of bed 20 minutes later, feet walk out the door 5 minutes later, arrive at school 25 minutes of quick copies, board notes, & general tidying up 30 minutes of…

4/16/12   Since January, I have been working with a student on a national scholarship application. She’s a phenomenal student and person. Granted, I have only been teaching 2 years, but all teachers know of her as a leader. She is at the top of her class socially and academically, but not in one of…

4/14/12   After Saturday school, students are fed pizza and cokes before they are sent along their merry way.   Want to lead a child to success?   Promise said child two coca-cola drinks after Saturday school (“seriously miss?” “yes. seriously.”), and they will pass the first quiz/test they have passed all year, missing only…

4/13/12   I began 7th period singing, as sometimes happens when I’m tired and it just comes out in song. This resulted in pleasant vibes from the class for about a minute, but when we had to get serious….it resulted in multiple requests and finally threats for them to calm down.   This is the…

4/12/12 There comes a point to just stop. Will you heed the sign? Or g0 on?     Actually, today was pretty awesome. Didn’t think about test-prep much.  My lesson was over-planned, but picture poetry was fun. I pulled a poem that referenced the Valley, and while it was too high for my students, we…

4/11/12   I don’t get sick very often, but when I do, I work it up with my students. Today, on medicine, I still sounded bad because I was totally stuffed up. I just bought the first medicine I saw Tuesday morning, and I forgot that Mucinex = my hero.   Anyways, at least one…