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Second Year | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! Category Archives: Second Year. Public vs. private: Part I. My entire education (including college) came from public schools. I volunteered in public schools from my junior year in high school until I graduated college in 2008. I’m even a North Carolina Teaching Fellow. It's got what plants crave. Then I taught two years in Durham Public Schools. At Lakewood Elementary School. It was the worst. Our theme for my second year there was “No Excuses&#822...

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The way we were | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! The way we were. This post is mostly not about teaching – at least not how I imagine it going in my head at the moment. It could certainly apply. To teaching, though. This is a post about how easy it is to embellish your past to make yourself look better or even to beat your current self up over something – all without realizing that you are doing it. Observe:. Then the school year started. By the first week in September, my sleep routine was totally ...

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Public vs. private: Part I | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! Public vs. private: Part I. My entire education (including college) came from public schools. I volunteered in public schools from my junior year in high school until I graduated college in 2008. I’m even a North Carolina Teaching Fellow. It's got what plants crave. Then I taught two years in Durham Public Schools. At Lakewood Elementary School. Initially, I thought it was great. Sure, they were bogged down by Reading First. It was the worst. Our theme fo...

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Me | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! The way we were. This post is mostly not about teaching – at least not how I imagine it going in my head at the moment. It could certainly apply. To teaching, though. This is a post about how easy it is to embellish your past to make yourself look better or even to beat your current self up over something – all without realizing that you are doing it. Observe:. Then the school year started. By the first week in September, my sleep routine was totally ...

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Running | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! The way we were. This post is mostly not about teaching – at least not how I imagine it going in my head at the moment. It could certainly apply. To teaching, though. This is a post about how easy it is to embellish your past to make yourself look better or even to beat your current self up over something – all without realizing that you are doing it. Observe:. Then the school year started. By the first week in September, my sleep routine was totally ...

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Abuse | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! I’m not sure where to start, here. I guess I’ll begin with the post that got me thinking about abuse. Several years ago. Skepchick, one of my favorite websites, has a regular feature called Ask Surly Amy. In this post, somebody asked her for advice about helping an abused woman he knows:. I looked it up. That is staggering. I cannot imagine getting up the courage to leave an abusive situation once, let alone more than half a dozen times. I have heard stor...

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Private School | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! Category Archives: Private School. Public vs. private: Part II. This is the second of two posts about my journey from public schools to private school. You can read the first part here. The interview process at Camelot Academy. About it. One day, she asked me why I’d left my last school. While giving my carefully prepared spiel, I realized it wasn’t going to be enough. “I notice you didn’t put your principal down as a r...8221; I couldn’t lie. I...I don&#...

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Teaching | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! First of all, I would like to point out that I started this entry two years ago. Nearly finished it, and then… forgot? Anyway, it’s just as relevant, so why not just post it? I ended up doing the exact same thing this year, anyway. Ha! Post drafted 17 August 2013:. Last Monday was the beginning of the new school year for me. It took me four days punctuated by various meetings (oh, the meetings! For the next time. My ability to achieve. Finally, I realized...

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End-of-the-school-year-itis | The Learning Curve

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A journal about teaching, cats, and — ooo, shiny! Seniors (twelfth graders, not the elderly) get to call it senioritis. “I’ve been doing this for 13 years, and now I’m finally off to college! 8221; (…to do it for another four plus years, but you keep that tidbit under your hat so as not to discourage them.). I read this fantastic blog. This evening and my first thought was, “HEY, NOW! We need to work through to the end of the year. Every day is important! This, in particular, resonated with me:. Whew&#82...