It’s Saturday afternoon, my wife and kids are napping, and I’m filling out an application with PAREAP, Pennsylvania’s statewide educational job bank. I’m doing this in anticipation of my graduation from the School Psychologist graduate program I started back in the summer of 2003. At the time, I was a…
Passion Quilt Meme
Both Suzanne and Pat bonked me with this one, so now I feel doubly guilty for having neglected it for over a month (sorry, Suzanne). At any rate, here are the rules, blatantly plagiarized from Pat’s post: Passion Quilt Meme Rules: 1. Think about what you are passionate about teaching…
When It Rains… An Addendum
I happened upon this Facebook discussion thread this evening and thought it germane to the issue of student-teacher Internet contact as covered in yesterday’s post. Check out the whole thread for yourself, but here are some choice quotes for your contemplation (cut & pasted; only minor editing for clarity and…
Two Blog Posts, Both Alike in Dignity
Blogging here has taken a bit of a backseat recently due to the newest freeloader at our house, but I’ve found time to Twitter and comment elsewhere. Two posts that have piqued my interest recently are from Kate Olson and Dan Meyer. After receiving (and responding to) an email from…
My Inbox: Let Me Show You It
So I got an email from WetPaint today. It’s a typical website newsletter, but it starts with an appeal to my ego: I got to the end of the second paragraph and had to do a double take: Yeah, lemme get right on that. Before one of those other Damian…