Reinvention

Thanks for the goodbye comments. I truly appreciate them, and for your willingness to continue following a blog which hasn’t been updated in months.
Anyway, I figured it was time for a reinvention as a teacher. I see in myself a different person than I was when I became a teacher, and therefore have [...]

bye

Thanks for reading. Thanks for your participation and your help. You’ve made me a better teacher through your input and direction — I’d have failed and flailed without it. I hope those few words will underscore my gratitude.
Make sure you keep in touch with Kevin and the renewed energy of “Your Day [...]

Goodbye?

Hi there.
Next week begins with a new class, taking away my prep hour, and leaving me to work from home. I’m honestly not sure how much time I will be able to devote to this blog from this point on, as I’m building lessons for that new class and preparing that work for a [...]

Friday Haiku

Compare and Hobbes

Using this strip today to begin a discussion about compare and contrast writing.

Image copyright Bill Waterson and the Universal Press Syndicate

good gravy

Recently I’ve taken on a few more roles at the school. Here’s what I am now:

1. Teacher
2. Youth Group Mentor ( of a nationally recognized club )
3. After-school homework-club leader
4. Saturday school advisor
I hold strong reasons for doing these things, and I’ll admit that at least a little of this has to do with [...]

Your Days in Sentences

Here’s the sixteenth installment of the Boil Your Day Down into One Sentence fun-tacular! Each week I’ll ask for these sentences and each week I’ll post them along with links to the authors’ blogs.
And, as usual, any new authors who enter are added to the blogroll.

First up we have newcomer Jody Hayes, who [...]

Call for entries!

Time for Your Day Boiled Down into One Sentence. All you need to do is sum up one day from this week of teaching into one sentence.
Type your sentence in the comments section of this post, and I’ll create a list of your work by Sunday. Any new blogs will be added to [...]

A milestone…

This blog turned 2 years old on Sunday.
693 posts, 1,409 comments, and roughly 64,000 pageviews later I hope I’m a little less whiny, a little more insightful, and always doing the right thing.
So much has happened in that short time, and I’d just like to thank you for your readership and [...]

Thanks!

About half the teachers at my school yesterday had the kids answer the question: “What are you thankful for?” It never occurred to me to use that question, and I’m thankful I didn’t — you can’t iimagine how many students were walking down the hallways complaining about how they’d done it over and over [...]