The NYC FOSS wiki is starting to take off, along with an email discussion among those of us who were in training together about how the program is working in our classrooms. The consensus seems to be that the students are underprepared in many areas - math, science, and reading - and that while we [...]
I saw Into the Wild last night, and cried a little through-out. It started with the Sharon Olds poem he reads to his sister at college graduation - a poem I loved before this movie and which feels so appropriate today, not in my relationship to my parents but in the leaps of [...]
I love the process of learning something new: the struggle, at first, the questioning about whether it’s worth it, the forgetting to incorporate the new skill into daily life, and then, later, effort leading to success, and much later, realizing you’ve done it successfully without even thinking about it.
I think that differentiation in the classroom [...]
I’m so settled, career-wise. I do something I love, at a pretty good place to do it, with people I like and respect. There are awful days, but overall, it works. I know what I do makes a difference, too. And I can see some of the steps in the “where do I go from [...]
Have I mentioned that I teach one section (4 hours per week) of CMSP, Comprehensive Math & Science Program? It’s really pushing me to differentiate, which is good, and to keep detailed data about student performance, also good. Keeping and using data is an important school goal this year, and given the push to do [...]
On the bus home after a long day working, just let your eyes close and feel the late afternoon sunshine warm your eyelids. This is what the bus driver was suggesting to the passengers crowding into the front of the bus. “It’s like a massage from God,” he said. “You close [...]
I’d rather spend the time reading or working or hanging out or cooking or doing yoga or sleeping than blogging.
Tomorrow commences the first full week of school. In the meantime, the contrast between my weekdays - waking up at 6, working from 7:30 to 5-something, coming home, doing a handful of personal things like cooking dinner, laundry, and the like, and then winding down the day with another hour or two of work - [...]
First: English-language books, lots of them, new, used, at reasonable prices. I’ve resolved to use my bus and subway time to read. A lot. So far this year, I’ve read Seeing, by Jose Saramago, The World Without Us, and I’m almost done with The Bronx is Burning, by Jonathan Mahler.
The first is a brilliant piece [...]
Chancellor Klein on the Colbert Report. Second part in the following post. Hat tip to City Room.
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