This caped teacher is using her spidey senses (don’t knock the mixed metaphor, and please don’t point out that Spiderman does not wear a cape, or that capes are the undoing of super heroes as is posited on The Incredibles. I’m doing my best here…) and seeing that her readers would like to know just…
April 4, 2010 I am wondering if this blog appears a little… shall we say… cocky. After all, I am calling myself a superhero on a regular basis and even put a cape on and fly around my classroom at times. I use the terms “super teacher,” “caped crusader,” and “hero” quite easily. I thought…
Student walks in, reaches into his pocket and says, in a decent Scarface impression: “Say ‘allo to my little… “ Student pulls out a pen. “…pen.” Student smiles. Note: It has been pointed out to me that this little quote could be seen as threatening–at least considering the Scarface reference and the fact that the…
For Spirit Day yesterday, I used a project inspired by the book Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold. In this story a girl imagines she is flying above the night skies of New York and claiming it for herself. She reclaims the union building that won’t let her father join due to the color of his…
Earlier this year our little program was in the depths of student misbehavior. A couple of strong role models were pretty much running the place with chronic defiance and bullying. We had tried everything we could think of to change the tide and were at a loss. By this point students had lost nearly every…
As an attention-getting device the yodeling emergency button is barely passable. The yodel is quiet, and the students either giggle or yodel loudly when it is played. As a community-building device, however, it has come in handy. I put it up one day, and no one noticed until I began to run around asking if…
Many caped teachers listen to NPR. On the way to work this morning, this caped teacher heard this news story about a bullying program our district elementary schools have been using. In the story a middle school is using it, and many of the comments by the principal and the students reminded me of my…
Okay, I wasn’t going to do this. I wasn’t going to post this on the blog. It crosses the boundary, I know. Here is the quandary… if I don’t share this masterpiece of an issue, the masses will not have the correct image of what cape-wearing truly entails. If I do share it, I will…
Warning–This conversation would be rated PG-13. It would be, if folks rated this kind of thing. E. is a very bright, very oppositional 7th grader. He is truly quite funny and entertaining, but he gets the class so riled up, he has to be tempered a bit. One of his skills is to weasel out…
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