This next school year (16-17) will be my tenth year working at Ontario-Montclair School District. Wow! It also marks 10 years of friendship and collaboration with my Euclid friend, Laura ( Read more... )

Look, I thought I was supposed to be getting a change of scenery. But so far, I've been in a train and a room, and a car and a room, and a room and a room. Well, maybe that's all right for a bunch of powdered gee-gahs like yourselves, but I'm feeling decidedly strait-jacketed. ~ Paul's Grandfather "A Hard Day's Night ( Read more... )

I'm referring to this current school year, 2012-2013. It has been the hardest year of my teaching experience thus far. All year I have felt like once I get one step ahead, I fall three steps behind... constantly ( Read more... )

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I survived my first week back to work! barely. There were so many new things added to an already busy schedule.

Before Audrey, my daily schedule looked something like this:

5am - wake up, eat breakfast, go to the gym/walk/ride bike/pilates with DVD, make my lunch, pack my bags for the day (which included any lesson plans or materials for the day)

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Here is how Audrey is liking daycare:


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I used to watch this show on HBO when I was a kid. This is the very end of it. Sometimes when things are over, I say it like this: ________ is now (*sniff*sniff) over ( Read more... )