March 2012
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Why we need more black male teachers now →
Why we need more black male teachers now
This is so timely. There are two hours at the end of my day that leave me wondering why on earth I am these kids’ teacher. It’s a bunch of 7th-grade African American boys with no father figures and major, major behavior problems—which, give me a school year and LOTS of back-up from a black male SOMEWHERE (which I had a lot of at my last...
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So, in small group today,
a kid wiped his nose on his sleeve. There was a booger. We both made eye contact with that booger, and we made eye contact with each other. Rather than jump up to wipe it off, the kid looked at me, put his mouth around the booger and ate it.
I almost puked.
EDIT: The child is almost 13.
February 2012
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WatchNeil DeGrasse Tyson (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) (by Comedy Central)
Can we talk about how awesome this was?
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I'm digging my heels in and turning it around...
Couldn’t sleep last night
Woke up late
Not a drop of hot water in my shower. Not. a. drop.
Knocked over my makeup bag and spilled eyeshadow all over my floor
Made it down three flights of stairs before I realized I forgot my keys
My grades disappeared from the grade book on the morning they are due.
This week might just need to be over!
EDIT:
spilled my whole coffee on a...
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www.rsc.org/images/BreadChemistry_tcm18-163980.pdf →
Need this!
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“Ms. Basye, I prob’ly shouldn’t say this, but you look like a true...”
– Michael
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WTF Wednesday, Thankful Thursday, TGIF all rolled...
This week has been ugly outside of the classroom. It’s all IEP stuff, so I can’t share, but all I have to ask is, how explicit does one have to be in a Behavior Support Plan? Do I really need to spell out that an adult cannot scream at a child? Yes, is the answer. Do I really need to spell out that every adult is responsible for executing this “plan”? Yes. Does it matter?...
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5 miles at 5 am
And that is the only thing that was pleasant about today.
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“You all up in my Kool Aid, and you don’t know what flavor I am!”
– Calvin
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Fun(ny) Friday: My students believe i'm 49
Are they silly? Or do I look old?
In other news, these kids are finally starting to grow on me. It has helped that our classes got redistributed and I have a more even load of seventh graders—there are some massive behavioral problems in this grade, but with only four or five per class period of fifty minutes, it is totally manageable. Even fun. This week was Operation: Run Like A Machine,...
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Wellness Wednesday too
Five classes taught
Six math stations ran perfectly (good for my mental wellbeing)
Four IEPs Scheduled
Two GOOD phone calls to mamas
Thirty-five pages read
Four miles ran
All by 6:00pm. Winning.
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WTF. Wednesday
A collection of the week’s moments that made me say “WTF.”
I go for a PD and come back to find out that some kid had gone into my desk, stolen my trail mix, and thrown it all over the room.
I am the new chair/head/liaison of the SPED department at my school. Pretty sure by default, no one wants to do it. It’s another one of those how-am-I-qualified-to-do-this moments...