This caped teacher and one of her caped friends watched Chicago a while back on the television box. We intended to watch something else, but this caped teacher made an error in planning. Good news though, Rule #5 has revealed itself (see the rest of the rules here). Roxie Hart has quite shocking language in…
I’ve mentioned before that I use the television show NCIS for inspiration–especially my name and my classroom rules (current list here). One time I mentioned “calling a campfire,” but I didn’t really explain it. I will ‘splain. There is too much, I will sum up… There is a character on NCIS named Dinozzo. At one…
I am the opposite of cerebral. I am intuitive, imaginative, and impractical. I am loosey-goosey, dreamy, and have a casual relationship with time. BUT. I prefer provable facts over what-ifs or maybes. If I am going to make a statement or declaration, I look it up first. That said, I am fixin’ to make a declaration. Actually two.…
I was going to title this post “god-light”. You know, the light that sometimes shines through the clouds and, some say, looks all biblical and stuff? I did a search on it, and found… well… very little that describes it as I want it described. Then I thought I’d use “A-Ha”. A search ensued, and…
One of my turtle-heads tends to favor a good lie (okay, any lie) over the truth. As this caped teacher is, along with many others, able to discern a lie in the seconds before it is told, I find myself catching lies multiple times a day. They are often little lies–“no I didn’t put that…
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…
Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs is one of my professional role models. It is for him that I have asked my students this year to call me Boss. I am not a TV fanatic, and I prefer not to pay the cable company any of my hard-earned money. I have, however, watched many episodes of…
I have my 6th and 7th grade girls convinced that if they whine, I will get a nervous twitch. This is not technically a lie, since I do think it could kill me if I have to listen to as much whining as they are capable of … of which they are capable … that they are…
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