So CRCT scores were released today. Not individual scores, of course. Just averages for the schools ( Read more... )

This is going to be an INCREDIBLY boring week for me. This week is standardized testing in Georgia. All students, from first grade on up to eighth grade will be taking the CRCT. I will be locked in a room, by myself, with 11 sixth graders (three of my students have testing accomodations and will be tested outside of my room) for three to four ( Read more... )

We had a meeting Friday afternoon. We think we hashed out the schedule for next year. According to this new schedule, I'll be teaching sixth grade only next year, Reading and Social Studies. Currently, I'm teaching Reading, English Language Arts and Social Studies to sixth and seventh. I got exactly what I requested ( Read more... )

I complain about my seventh grade alot. I complain about the talking, the disrespect, the laziness. I am done complaining because I am done teaching them ( Read more... )

I had been asked to meet with my Instructional Guide this afternoon to go over my long range plans for Language Arts and Reading. I was sort of bummed about it, because today is my day off and I jealously guard those. However, Jelena called me awhile ago and asked to reschedule. Her daughter needs to be picked up from her private school this ( Read more... )

I took the sixth and seventh graders to see the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra today. The sixth grade is studying Europe right now and seventh is studying Africa. Both classes are looking at music and performance in those cultures, so I thought this would be incredibly valuable for them ( Read more... )

So I had to go to school today, despite the rain and nearly freezing temperatures. I was quite disappointed ( Read more... )

I know I'm going to school tomorow. Quit teasing me with these "winter storm warnings"

My sixth grade has created a new mascot. His name? Jonny Rennaissance. His mission? Saving the Renaissance from that evil wizard I'm always talking about. We've worked out a few key facts about Jonny Rennaissance that I will share with you now:

FACT: Jonny Rennaissance lives in our time period. He merely travels back to the Rennaissance via a time ( Read more... )

Our "Arabic for Newcomers" MS class is on page 76 of Atlanta magazine right now. They've got a couple paragraphs about us buried in their annual charter school report. Last year it was a sentence and no picture.