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this explains so much about why, since i adopted milton, i wake up sore and exhausted!

"if we believed that given the opportunity children will learn and teachers will teach, the educational environment would be radically different."

- frank serafini, the reading workshop: creating space for readers

holy crap, i have hit the vintage shoe motherload the past couple days. they're all gettin' sold except the yellow asian-print wedgies!

stay tuned to my vintage blog.... lastchancevint


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today i got two new pets! cacophonous_joy  works in social services and had a client who had to move away and left them with a carrier with two Madagascan Hissing Cockroaches. apparently their names are kevin and brianna. they're messianic jews so there are crosses all over their carrier. and a jewish tassel. and transportation stickers, although i think those ( Read more... )

what an unproductive day, again. and that's ok, because it's the weekend! i hung out with ellis for a few hours. we went to fred meyer to enjoy the air conditioning and to buy a fan for me, which of course they were out of. we had lunch at chachacha and offended everyone with our slutty conversation. we ended finding me a cheap, effective box-fan ( Read more... )

hit me with songs about:
Portland
Growing
Rain
Bridges

they need to be appropriate for 3rd graders, so no sex/drug references.

thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

there is the grossest PDA going on about 4 feet from me. it's been happening on-and-off for a couple hours.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP i'm not getting anything done.

how do i get my brain in order?! i've got to get some stuff done. i have many hours of homework ahead of me, i'm already not going to get a decent night's sleep since i have class at 8:00.

i'm hoping the mocha i just ordered will help.

since i'm wasting time, i might as well post a picture:

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"There is a good deal of evidence that learning is enhanced when teachers pay attention to the knowledge and beliefs that learners bring to a learning task, use this knowledge as a starting point for new instruction, and monitor students' changing conceptions as instruction proceeds. For example, sixth graders in a suburban school who were given ( Read more... )