OK. So I'm not done. I left the rest for the maintenance guys to move. I went out again and moved all the loose stuff that my enthusiastic students grabbed and moved before I had a chance to box it up. I left the big and heavy boxes for the men to move. Read More...

We are still short 2 teachers. We need a PE teacher and an SpEd ED teacher. If anyone is interested please go to musd20.org and go to Santa Cruz Elementary School. We are a wonderful growing district and need good teachers. Read More...

There was another study done. Don't you wish we could be paid to do some of these studies? This one is about IED; Intermittent Explosive Disorder. Apparantly one in ten males have this disorder and one in twenty females. If a person loses his/her temper Read More...

I have been reading some of the blogs and I have to say I too am disturbed by the lack of correct capitalization in blogging, and writing. I was taught that there is usually a spoken language that is colloquial and then there is school and written language. Read More...

The schools in the town I live in are already in session. I work in a different town and we don't go back officially until next week. I have to go back to work and unpack those million boxes I have collected over the years. I guess I need to find out Read More...

My kids get very upset with me because I spend my own money on my class. I don't know how else to do it. I have certain things I want the kids to have to organize themselves and their parents don't provide them. For example, I just bought 25 little plastic Read More...

Well, this was a poor excuse for a summer. It is almost over and I haven't finished painting my bathroom. I don't even have all the primer on the walls yet. It has been just one thing after another. However, it is time to start thinking about school again. Read More...