How Will We Survive?
In a stack of papers called Instruction.
- Jun
- 19
- 2009
My library has already been cut. We will have no bookroom clerk, making novels almost an impossibility and replacement costs much higher than previous years for sure. We will lose one adviser, the person we send students to when they are problematic. We will have a total of fifteen more students each day, meaning that we’ll teach five and a half classes for the same pay as we usually get for... read more
Summer Resource Teacher
In a stack of papers called Instruction.
- Jun
- 17
- 2009
Since making it through one of the worst years of my life wasn’t punishment enough, I figured I’d take on the newly created English 1 Resource Teacher spot during summer school. No clear role, no teeth for enforcement, no precedence of expectation, no track record of success. Why not?
There are a total of seven meetings I’m supposed to hold, one before summer school starts and... read more
What Video Has Taught Me – Part 2
In a stack of papers called Instruction.
- Jun
- 07
- 2009
I feel like an idiot for not realizing this sooner. What have I been doing the last eleven years? Why didn’t I discover this until just about a month ago? Such a simple thing made a huge difference. And it all started with those documentaries in Speech.
Vision
“Tell me about your project. What do you see on the screen? What are you doing a documentary... read more
Beginning A Documentary
In a stack of papers called Instruction.
- May
- 25
- 2009
About a month ago, Speech announced that they wanted to make a video. We quickly went to work on the AFI curriculum and watched several versions of The Door Scene that we shot. We did one where we just walked around campus, one where we walked up to the door without going through it, another where we actually opened the door, and a... read more
An Unsolved Problem
In a stack of papers called Connections.
- May
- 24
- 2009
Out for a run yesterday, I listened to Act One of a deeply disturbing episode of This American Life. In New York, there’s apparently a place called the Rubber Room. Essentially, teachers report there when the board decides that they shouldn’t be in the classroom.... read more