I love this. I really love this. (This graphic has been provided by Burning Through Pages, a non-profit that actively works to encourage all kids—and especially teens—to read. Check out their page if you get a chance~~this is a group that provides books free of charge, helps kids join book clubs in their communities, and assists them in founding book clubs if there aren’t any. The group will also match a child or teenager with a volunteer to discuss the book with them one-on-one.) Read more »
A Grown-Up Library
You know when you’re a kid, and you think it’s going to be so wonderful to be a grown-up? You can hardly hold yourself together in anticipation of the great adult life that will be yours as soon as your little limbs and torso and feet and hands just get with the program and grow already. Oh, the glamor! Ah, the freedom! And finally, at long last—the overwhelming excitement of your first taste of independence and adulthood! But unfortunately the charms of adulthood can start to pale pretty quickly once the bills, the errands, the perpetual lack of both sleep [...] Read more »
On Math as Violation of Separation of Church and State
I now know why teaching math in school is such a clear violation of the separation of church and state. But I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t realize this until after Calvin explained it so well. Here he is to explain why: Read more »
For All My ESL Students
I am very certain that all of the ESL students whom I’ve taught would wholeheartedly agree with this graphic. English can be really messed-up sometimes. Sheesh! : ) Enjoy~ Read more »
On educational rhetoric from a teacher’s perspective
Please read this op-ed: it was written by a parent who is also a teacher. Excellent points are asserted in this article about the differing standards that are applied to teachers as compared to other professions. Here’s a teaser: “{W}hat other profession is legally held to PERFECTION by 2014? Are police required to eliminate all crime? Are firefighters required to eliminate all fires? Are doctors required to cure all patients? Are lawyers required to win all cases? Are coaches required to win all games? Of course they aren’t…” “If a poverty-stricken, drug-addled meth-cooker burns down his house, suffers third degree [...] Read more »