6:58am, Sept 20, 2005 ( Read more... )

I do not remember the last time I was able to be so lazy, and feel so justified in doing so. It's insanity. Case in point ( Read more... )

TINA! COME GET SOME HAM ( Read more... )

It's pretty much over. The year has wound down. So it goes ( Read more... )

I'm almost there. One year of teaching under my belt. I've been looking back a lot these days. It all started with my trip to Portland for the Lewis and Clark graduation, seeing all you graduates, all you friends still in school, my sisters and mom. Tyler. Since then I've had time to think about this year I've spent away from you. The times I must ( Read more... )

I just sat a whole period in my classroom and watched my students have their education fucking robbed from them. I have planning right now, so I'm working in paperwork, lesson planning, etc., and the teacher who is in here hasn't taught them shit. She just stood and gossipped the whole time. There was no lesson, no instruction, no nothing. They ( Read more... )

So I just went to verify the scores and see how my other students did. The only scores that are back are the English LDAA scores for Juniors and Seniors, and 100% of my students PASSED! 100%! And most of them did really well! I am still waiting on the scores for the Sophomores in my class, those will be here in May. So far, so GOOD! My students are

My student Omar just came in the class, he had just learned his test scores from the English writing SDAA. HE GOT A~SCORE POINT 4!!!!!! A 4 is the highest score you can get on the writing test! At the beginning of the year he was my worst student, the one who gave me the most trouble. Now he is my most motivated, and he will graduate this year! He ( Read more... )

A student of mine, Gustavo, was helping me re-attach my weekly calendar whiteboard and hang up the individual goal sheets around it, and he was talking about how long my class periods always seemed to take. I told him ( Read more... )

You Know You're From Eugene When...

You inadvertently own one or more pieces of tie-dye clothing ( Read more... )