As I get older I’ve become more aware of the amount of sugar we consume every day. It’s insane actually. Every year the students do an experiment where they put the amount of sugar in different drinks into plastic bags and display it. I’m always disgusted by the amount of sugar in energy drinks but … Continue reading
Author Archives: Jennifer
I tried knitting this week
I remember knitting being harder than this. Of course I haven’t gotten to the end yet. We’ll see if I can remember how to finish this scarf. I found my old knitting needles and went to find yarn. I decided the shades of blue and green were a perfect start to spring so I have a … Continue reading
Knitting
Knitting? Why not give it a try… Continue reading
Aaannnd again
Never one to quit, I have spent the last several years bouncing from one position to the next as my school has changed things around. It left me no time for writing and no time to…yes, I am going to say it…stop and think. Since Education Reform has clearly become a huge thing, that has … Continue reading
Pay no attention to the Great and Powerful Ed Reform behind the curtain…it’s not as magical as we’ve been led to believe
There have been several articles from a variety of sources in the past month about how ‘the newest things’ in education, which have been held up as the perfect solution for the last few years, are starting to fray around the edges and some are even crashing in on themselves. The New Orleans school system … Continue reading
A Return to Writing
After an extended hiatus I’m returning to writing. In the last two years everything has changed; my school was taken over by a charter, I have moved to a new school, I have switched subject areas three times in the last three years, and those are only the ‘big things’. As you can imagine the … Continue reading
Professional Development in Schools and the Rise of the Paid Expert
Let’s Re-Learn How to Read for the Common Core is a recent article by Stephen Chiger for Huffington Post’s online education page. In the article he apologizes to one of his old professors for not reading deeply enough and talks about how he recently participated in a class that made him feel “like an intellectual and … Continue reading
