Retaining Baby Teachers (A Tale of Ms. Hope)
Posted by Blue Cereal on Friday, 29 June 2018
Teacher retention is a… challenge – ‘challenge’ here meaning ‘nightmare-of-impossibility-dear-god-what-are-we-going-to-do?!?’
June 2018
By Any Means Necessary (Repost)
Posted by Blue Cereal on Wednesday, 27 June 2018The below is a slightly edited version of something I wrote and posted almost four years ago. I stumbled across it again this morning and realized it might be pretty good advice - for me, four years later.
Dear Involved Parents: Chill the $%&# Out!
Posted by Blue Cereal on Sunday, 17 June 2018
Dear Engaged, Sincere, Loving, Active Parent(s):
I just finished my twentieth year in the classroom. In that time, I’ve had a decent variety of kids from a wide range of circumstances. Every one of them has his or her own issues, own strengths, own styles, and own reasons for doing what they do however they do it.
Marco Polo History
Posted by Blue Cereal on Sunday, 10 June 2018I have not told half of what I saw. (Marco Polo on his death bed, when encouraged to retract some of his crazy stories before facing judgement)
It’s unlikely that Polo actually observed firsthand everything he claimed... (Every Polo biographer since then)