Donate Now With the first week of teaching comes a serious heat wave in San Jose. It’s been hovering around 100 degrees for the past three days. I don’t have air conditioning in my classroom, the lower windows have been painted shut, and I don’t have one of those poles that opens the high windows.…
read more »Donate Now Tomorrow is the first day of school. At 8:30 am I will be standing at the front of a classroom full of 7 year olds. And they’re going to look at me as if I know what I’m doing. Ha. After a very long week of Open Court training followed by four very…
read more »Now I am in the midst of Open Court Training, which means that I get up and drive to a fancy hotel in downtown San Jose every day and learn how to teach reading the Open Court way. So far it’s been pretty useful, but the best part is that all of the second grade…
read more »With TFA Orientation, I officially began the switch from teacher training (a.k.a. teacher boot camp) to professional development. So, we spent the week writing Big Goals and Long Term Plans. Not that either of mine are finished yet, and I have to have a draft of both ready for Saturday, and this coming week I…
read more »Now that I’m back from Institute, I’ve been trying to synthesize everything that happened there. I’d be doing a lot better job if I had a spare moment to myself, but I haven’t. Friday night after I got back from Grape Street Elementary for the last time, I packed up all my stuff and moved…
read more »Well, I did it. Almost, anyway. It is 6:12 am here on Friday, August 3, 2007. The last day of Institute. There are many things that I want to say about my experience overall, but I think that is for a later post. Today, we’re talking data. Last time I analyzed my students’ data, they…
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