February 2011
82 posts
“Please, by all means, go on a journey of self-exploration while the rest of us...”
– The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time: Eat, Pray, Love (via synecdoche)
January 2011
74 posts
“If we are to use taxpayer dollars to fund these projects, then we should demand...”
– —One of my coworkers (a REAL, LIVE teacher) is also our local Representative at the Indiana House. This is an excerpt from a letter he wrote in our local paper.
Tell it like it is, brother.
(via girlwithalessonplan)
What If We Treated Doctors The Way We Treat... →
What if we indeed held doctors and other professionals to the same bloat and condescension that we currently hold teachers? I can predict some of the responses that physicians might make: “We can’t control what our patients do or eat outside of our offices to maintain minimum levels of health. Also, these variables — BMI, cholesterol, blood pressure — are limited and don’t adequately measure a...
Generous, Art-loving St. Louisans - Take Note. →
reclaimingm:
Soup + St. Louis, with a dash of artists grants = SLOUP
My favorite things. SOUP & ART!
This month’s: Sunday, Jan 30 at the Contemporary Art Museum (now know as CAM)
Sloup is a monthly soup dinner in St. Louis that supports projects, primarily artistic or communicative, that need a little funding and belief. Soup dinners will be on one Sunday a month from 6-8 p.m. Soups...
Must Read. BEAUTIFUL Christian reflection on the... →
Please parent your children
I really don’t like having little kids (or anyone) speak disrespectfully to me.
I became a teacher to teach children to love music and themselves… but it makes me so sad how many are lacking parents to set them up for success. Please, Please parent your children. Don’t be their friend. Don’t think it’s cute for them to misbehave when they’re little…...
I got my friend back!
You may remember (here) that I talked about writing my friend to ask for an apology after we were pretty childish a few years back.
After waiting on pins and needles for a few days, I was SO THANKFUL to hear back from her… :)
Sorry
… about my grumping earlier.
I’m feeling much better, a-thank you. My mind is wandering to old friends and I’m dreaming up all sorts of reunions.
My friend K had her own Legends Weekend, like Oprah did a while back. I think that I may create my own.
Should Barbie Take Ken Back? →
Hells to the yes. Who is Blaine?
yunapark:
Vote yet?
The day after...
… a shitload of snow is HARD.
Hard to get back in the swing of teaching. I swear, I keep stumbling over my words today.
Hard to get out of bed. I admit, I crawled back in for an extra 15 minutes of snuggling. Hard to get going. Icy windshield. Stuck in stand-still traffic on the high way for 20 minutes. Because of black ice. and car wrecks.
Hard to remember what the xoke I’m...
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’...”
– (via catharsis421)
“Nothing is permanent. Especially people. Strangers become friends. Friends...”
– Megan McCafferty (via make-me-smile)
Today, among other lovely things, I wrote an apology letter to a friend. She did something I found extremely rude around the time of my wedding. I, lamely, unfriended her on facebook. My apology re: unfriending was one I have wished I had written almost...
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Snow Day #2
I WILL be more productive today… I swear.
Those daytime talk shows lure me in with their promises of “after the break” and then only give me a scant 1 minute of information. Booo!
“Thank you to public school teachers. I know you don’t get paid like it, but...”
– Ian Brennan, one of writers/producers of Glee, accepting the best comedy Golden Globe. (via girlwithalessonplan)
You’re welcome! Thanks for noticing!
peoniesandponytails:
Longest day ever… Currently channeling George Michael.
Oh man…. Can’t tell you how much I am feeling this one right now!
The Bee and the Bud: Things I Thought About Today →
This SO brought me back. K-Swiss shoes were in where I lived. Also, those sweatshirts with a short saying and a stick figure/simple drawing of a face on them. My favorite sweatshirt in that era said “who cares?” and had a guy picking his nose. I thought I was awesome!
And I was trying to be all equal opportunity back then, as well. Go me! Little protester in training! I asked...
'We pauperize education' →
adventuresinlearning:
“…The richest nation on Earth has never allocated enough resources to build sufficient schools, to compensate adequately its teachers, and to surround them with the prestige our work justifies. We squander funds on highways, on the frenetic pursuit of recreation, on the overabundance of overkill armament, but we pauperize education.” — From March 14, 1964 speech by Dr....
Bread.
Bread. The most basic. Yet, the most complex.
I’ve decided that though tumblr makes reblogging easy, it’s also too easy to let that be all I’m doing. You know the drill. Think of interesting life observation. iPhone is dead. You forget to write it down, and therefore it didn’t exist. Reblog pretty sunset.
So, my goal is to reblog less - reflect more.
For a while...
“This is a strange juxtaposition: Our schools are cleansed of all that is...”
– ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘The Wire’ (via girlwithalessonplan)
Remix: Top Ten Musical Pieces →
I wanted to partake in this list, but of course, would be more applicable to me if I use musical pieces…. :) Not edited. Straight out of the head.
1.Defying Gravity from Wicked
2.It Would Have Been Wonderful from Annie Warbucks
3.Stars and Moon- Jason Robert Brown
4.Dona Nobis Pacem - Ralph Vaughn Williams
5.Christmas Cantata - Daniel Pinkham
6.Three Teasdale Madrigals - Howard...
I'm sad that today wasn't a snow day. Cheer me up... →
Too much TV time may hurt your heart →
Spending lots of free time glued to the TV or computer screen can hurt your heart and shorten your life, no matter how much exercise you get when you’re not riding the couch, a new study suggests.
People who spent at least four hours per day watching TV, playing video games, or using a computer for fun were more than twice as likely as those who kept their recreational “screen time” under...
Girl with a Lesson Plan: Wanted: Schema →
Used the Arizona shooting today as a reference point… about 6-8 7th grade boys laughed. I’m not surprised, because nothing middle school students do really surprises me, but DEF had to break that one down.
Laughing at a shooting. Not cool. People experiencing pain and violence. Not cool. World… throw these kids a bone, here. :(
teachingtoday:
My students don’t...
I just friended my mom on facebook...
My mom is on facebook ALL THE TIME. She doesn’t understand why I don’t write her back immediately when she posts on my wall. :/
A few years ago, before she had facebook, I let her have my password to snoop on people. I know, I know, I practically created this monster. ;) But anyway, my little sister, a college freshman at the time, unfriended me and refused to refriend me until I...
Virginia Poised to Ban Teacher-Student Texting,... →
girlwithalessonplan:
infoneer-pulse:
Should teachers friend their students on Facebook? Should teachers text their students?
There’s no real consensus here. “No, never.” “Maybe, sometimes.” “Yes, but responsibly.” Nonetheless many schools and districts are drafting policies that dictate how school staff can interact with students via new networks and technologies - in many cases, restricting...
