I filled the last few days with trips to the dumpster and at least eight hours per in my classroom. From cleaning out a colleague’s room (nice guy and pack rat par excellence) to sifting through my own cupboards (a fine hoarder in my own right), our trash compactor is working overtime.<\/p>\n
I’m getting over my concern about throwing away books. Your dusty class set of anthologies from two book-adoptions ago has some good stories in it. But if it’s from 1979, if you haven’t cracked it open with your kids in the last 3 years, throw the set away. You don’t need to keep them simply because they are books and Ray Bradbury would shake his head.<\/p>\n
How does the environment your students walk into impact the way they interact with what you sell each day? How does it effect the way you sell it? I’m not just talking about posters on the walls and books on the shelves. I’m talking empty boxes in corners, stacks of papers on the floor, clutter behind your desk, cabinets full of what you know is junk. What message does it communicate about you and your job and your content area?<\/p>\n
It really all boils down to preparing for the role and there’s not much time left to do it. If my room is clean, if I feel good about my organization, if I look around the room with a sense of accomplishment, all of that comes through on Day One.<\/p>\n
It’s well past time, so what are you doing to prepare for your role? We’ll talk about Day One next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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