Maybe reading this again may answer some of my burning questions, Drive by Daniel Pink. Here is an excerpt screenshot from my Kindle: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog0rama.edublogs.org%2F2011%2F04%2F29%2Fwihwt-drive-by-daniel-pink%2F'; addthis_title = 'WIHWT%3A+Drive+by+Daniel+Pink'; addthis_pub = '';

My burning question for today (with a side of meltdown, frustration, and melted mascara) is: Are we raising a generation of liars? Covering a remedial math class this morning due to an emergency, the absent, ill teacher inadvertently forgot lesson plans for this small class. No worries: I asked the school secretary and she repeated what [...]

I want to be one of the back-up vocalists for this one: http://teamcoco.com/content/soul-singerrapper-plan-b-performs-his-song-she-said addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fblog0rama.edublogs.org%2F2011%2F04%2F26%2Fwihst-she-said%2F'; addthis_title = 'WIHST%3A+She+Said%26%238230%3B'; addthis_pub = '';

My best friend’s father passed away. She and I have known each other since we were 13. I found out yesterday, short, expressive email was truly heartbreaking. I didn’t, or couldn’t really process it until the drive in this morning. Every instinct told me to fly to her side and hug her, and just be there, and [...]

I have a lot of quotes in my room. Never a “hang in there kitty poster,” but a few little nuggets of wisdom. To keep things looking fresh, I move things around from time to time. I recently put a quote from Marie Curie outside my door, above my name plate: Nothing in life is to [...]

This is when my job completely, totally is fantastic. Talking about “The Necklace” today in second period, class structure came up with a small group: this scene popped into my mind, the peasant scene from Monty Python/Holy Grail. When I saw it in high school it changed my life. Changed. My. Life. Yes – randomness. [...]

My pale, late-spring skin is being burned by the fluorescent lighting. My brain kicked in at 3AM in spite of the fact I went to sleep at 10:45PM – a new early for me. Early morning staff meeting to review the proctoring procedures for the state test: one funny brave teacher presented her group’s poster [...]

I forgot today was Wednesday. Just for a moment. And then I remembered today is my attempt to put something in under the “Wish I Had Written That” tag–been thinking a lot lately about dwarfs, drinking and eating dwarfs specifically, and the scene in The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien) where the dwarfs invade Bilbo Baggins’ hobbit hole, [...]

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I love Look At My Happy Rainbow. He is my kindergarten counter-weight to where all sprouts begin–I am at the other end of the spectrum in 8th grade, where the sprouts are at their awkward “just about to blossom” phase?! Oh dear – yuck. That’s an awful analogy. And though right now I am about as [...]