Thanks goes out to N.O., S.C., S.M., L.E., and my pops for donations and suggestions regarding flash-drivey-ness. Special thanks to L.E. for donations of pens and keychains and paperclips. We will use them in good health. We are a village. Or… we are the world. Or… yeah. Thanks.
This Caped Site Lead has turned back into this Caped Teacher and is preparing her classroom for a new year. School starts painfully early this year and there was not a lot of transition time. Teachers spend a huge amount of time in their rooms and many spend much of their own time, money, and…
from The Onion I had to break up a fight yesterday. Let me share some of the phrases that were being bandied about (with some details altered to protect the guilty): A: “It’s 10:55.” B: “Nuh-uh, it’s 10:54.” A: “My watch says it is” B: “Then check your cell phone.” A: “You can’t talk to me like…
I have a request… I am looking for a bunch of small flash drives for my students. I was shopping online and realized that lots of companies seem to be handing out little flash drives with their logos on them for advertising. I don’t need tons of space on any one flash drive, just enough…
Working on colors with a very young boy-child with no school experience… Me: Show me green. D: Green. Me: Good! Show me yellow (putting yellow and purple in front of him). D: Green. Me: That was green. Now show me yellow (pointing to yellow and purple). D: See the TV? Me: Yes. Now show me yellow.…
It turns out that being a Caped Site Lead for summer school takes more energy than I thought. Either that, or my expectation of energy expenditure was too low, and my actual energy expenditure was too high, resulting in an all-over slug-like laziness. Anyhoo (yes, I will tell you about Nana and the “anyhoo”), I…
I received an email from a former student this morning. She is a-maze-ing. I told her I will be taking credit for that. Just to ease the minds of folks who might think I actually think I mean that, I don’t. In reality, I will only take credit for realizing she is amazing. In my…
I had a plan to do something cool for my 100th post. I’ve seen my blogging friends do it (here), and thought I might as well. Alas, I missed it. This is my 102th post (pronounced one hundred tooth). I suppose this is all for the best, since I have nothing to give away. But……
I just learned something important. You can’t go willy nilly about town creating words. I’ve been using the word “wog” to describe my lackluster running (get it? walk+jog=wog? It’s math.). I’ve found myself quite amusing for the past few months as I bandied this word about. This morning, I looked it up to see if I…
It’s Father’s Day, and as I’ve mentioned before (here and here) even Super Teachers have Dads. I want to send a shout-out to my Pops. He was the first to support and, dare I say, read this blog with regularity. He and I have worked through some things in the last thirty-odd years and each…
Wear The Cape 