Today, I offer a Slice of Life Tuesday post that is two-pronged. In one prong, I ask for you to share your experience with me for a future post. The second prong entails telling what I did yesterday – an old activity, in a new place! Prong One: Currently, I am working a post about Advanced…
Wow! It has been a whirlwind week. I am mid-course learning about environmental history. It has been a challenging course just due to some computer issues and heavy reading. But, I have been learning lots of new facts…..and realized that the course is already half over! My final project will be on the history of…
Although I have recently received what I would call flack for writing about local educational issues, I know it is important to continue to raise community awareness about both the things we can work on and the things that are working well for our students. So, today, I offer an encouraging, down right positive, story. …
Distance Learning. This term has come to mean a lot of different things, but to me it means learning from an institution or teacher from a distance – one that is not local to where you are but someplace, some distance away. I have experience with distance learning, both personally and with two of my…
We have always viewed the education of our sons to be a team effort – between us and their teachers. But, what if a member of the team fails to show up? Today is the first parent teacher conference day for fall term at our high school. It is a time I have always enjoyed….
Over the summer I heard a few times from one of my former students from the Third Grade Writer’s Circle group I have led as a volunteer for the last six years. She was a particularly precocious writer and has continued to send me bits and pieces of her writing since she was in my…
A number of recent things have got me thinking about Talented and Gifted (TAG) Education services in our school district again. These thoughts started when we learned at the recent senior meeting that one of the high school counselors was now being called a career counselor and would be the contact person for TAG students,…
This past week was the first of many senior meetings for us. We were filled in on what our student needs to be doing to get ready for his time after high school and in selecting a college. We have been through all this before, as we have an older son. However, it has been…
September is here. It is a time of transition, once again. Already, some schools are back in session, or soon will be after the Labor Day holiday. With two sons still in high school, I have wishes for both of them, as well as for myself, for this upcoming year. What I wish for my…
Fall is in the air! Can you feel it? I can. The fall soccer season has started with two games this past week, one against a nearby rival last night, ending in a tie. The afternoon was warm but by 7 p.m., when the varsity team started to play, it was rapidly getting cooler. We…