Slice of Life Tuesday: I’m Sorry, You’ve Been Disconnected!
This morning I am wondering how many of our high school students are feeling. The school is instituting a new (changed) policy on cell phone usage. As I understand it,…
Tag: educational policy
Five Days to a Tailspin
This is a story about my intensity as a person and why I cannot make a run for a seat on the school board. You need to know that I…
Still Broken: Talented & Gifted Education
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…
Have You Ever?
Have you ever done something you knew was going to irritate you, but did it anyway? I did that today. Today, I opened a folder of notes I took while…
To Commit, or Not – That is the Question.
The postcard has laid on the shelf for a week. Just receiving it, although expected, brought up many mixed emotions for me. My response is required by today. It would…
Grades: Do they measure learning?
via Daily Prompt: Measure Having students who work hard and do well in school, I always bought into the premise that grades measure learning. With years of experience in education,…
Topic List for Writing
Making lists keeps my life in order. Today, I present a list of topics that have crossed my mind more than once in the last several years (not just this…
Pass the Rationale, Please!
After the success of yesterday’s travel photo journal, I am reluctant to digress to a more serious topic. However, my writing needs to have a purpose to inform as well…
