I’m getting my gradebook up to date today, attempting to quantify the unquantifiable. I teach seventh grade. Assessing their work is a bit like comparing butterflies. Or buttons. Each child is different. Seventh graders come in all shapes and sizes (look at a seventh grade girl and a seventh grade boy – they can appear…
Month: December 2012
The Inevitable Cold (and why I’m happy this break is two weeks long)
Of course, a few days after the last day of school in December, I caught a cold. I suspect that this is the cold that was being passed around school, and I am so so secretly delighted that this was NOT the flu that was being passed around. It took almost a week to shake…
TLDR – what began as a facebook post
I wrote this back on October 22, returning from NYC and my father-in-law’s memorial service – heaven only knows why I didn’t post it. Today as I was waiting in line for the loo on the plane as we awaited clearance to leave Detroit (where we had detoured because of the storm) a woman behind…
Living on the Lip of Insanity 