Donate Now For this first weekend of spring break, Scott and I spent a wonderful three days up in Napa valley. It is truly beautiful there, and it’s one of the best vacations I have ever had. I really needed it. While having dinner before heading home tonight, I heard Eric Clapton’s “Change the World”…

Donate Now As you may well know by now, I am teaching in an Open Court district. This means that for whatever reason, somebody down the street at the district office decided that OCR is the solution to all of education’s problems. Forget the fact that 90% of our students are English Learners and OCR’s…

This week was one of the most difficult weeks I’ve had in a while. On Monday I got to school at 6:45 and worked right up until the bell rang and somehow I still was not fully prepared for my day. I don’t really know what happened. Maybe it was that last weekend we had…

After much sweat, blood, and tears on my part, we were finally successful in having the SST for M, one of my students who can’t read (the other one who can’t read has leukemia and is never at school.) As you may recall, I submitted the paperwork for M’s SST in October. We had the…