An archived stack of papers: June 2009

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