Coffee in the morning.
Seeing my Betty cat come home after 5 days gone.
Keith.
My students, for sharing.
That moment in the classroom where learning clicks into a buzz of activity.
Once a month dinner club with the girls is tonight. The theme is Texan. Though I had the best of intentions I hear IGA makes a great pecan [...]
This was what I posted on the blog for my Contemporary World Issues class today. I decided to share it here, too. Have you been thinking of essential questions to do with our reaction to the devastation in Haiti? Have you been talking about this with your students?
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I have been addicted to the Haiti earthquake [...]
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So, to most accounts, the dialogue I wrote about in my last post was a big fail. At times it could have been described as bedlam, mayhem (what strange little words).
It was the debrief that didn’t fail, the debrief with the student who, as I told him, held the class hostage. [...]
This morning I yelled. But big. At my dogs, at my cat, at my house, at my students.
I adopted a cat (Betty) a few weeks ago because of the mice. Not into mice. But my big dog (Toby) stalks her and my little dog (Jacob) alternates between ignoring her, stealing her toys, and barking [...]
According to the Quebec courts it is the government who has the final say, at least in terms of what our children learn in school.
I heard about this story on cbc news as I was driving to work this morning:
Parents group to appeal ruling on ethics course: judge rejects bid for exemption. Studying religious [...]
Is there a big difference between public attitude towards teachers in the US and Canada?
When people find out that I am a teacher I NEVER (and I am not a wanton all caps user) am made to feel like I have settled on teaching for lack of ability to do otherwise. Did I mention NEVER?
On [...]
…to get so much in I am SO excited to start work again. At the same time, I have so much I still want to do this summer. It’s going to be a busy 2 weeks and a bit
The 4 of us, the teaching and support team at Directions, met last [...]
I’ve got a few things going on lately.
End of year – I’m creating, invigilating, correcting exams on an ongoing basis. And there are still 2 weeks to go! Of course along with that comes student stress. I teach Grade 11. Some of my students won’t graduate this year, some will, some are unsure. The [...]
I read this today and it rings so very true:
The last weeks of school is something that few people really understand. When I was in business I often thought that teachers had it easy. To those business people (including my former self) – I ask them to imagine if budgeting, taxes, capital budgets, montly operations [...]
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Yesterday was one of those amazing, magical Montreal springtime days that remind us all why we suffer the cold and snow for 4-6 months of the year. The sun was shining and warm, people were on the streets in short sleeves, some even in shorts. The light stayed with us until almost 8 in the [...]
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