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Out For Blood
I love my job. I really do. And I’m good at it. I get the kids in my class to work with each other, to cooperate, and show respect. I challenge them to live up to their own potential, to do their work, and always try their best. I haven’t had a day in my…
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Where Are Your Priorities?
Our Halloween celebrations at school last week were something else. They started after lunch with a costume parade. The entire school took part in it. Some parents even came with costumes. After that, we went over to “the haunted house” that some parent volunteers had set up. It was nice to see parents in the…
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Clock’s Outta Sync
For some reason I woke up an hour early yesterday. I looked at the clock and it read 06:15 hrs. I tried to go back to sleep but it just wasn’t happening. I was wide awake. I decided to get up early so I could get some work done before school. I must admit that…
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A Wrong Can’t Be Right, Can it?
Most people know the difference between right and wrong. Sometimes we find ourselves doing things that we know in our hearts are wrong, but we can easily justify our actions. The problem is that we can rationalize anything. We’ve gotten quite good at it too. I should know. I find myself doing things that are…
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The Beauty in Halloween
“In the face of all the horror, the small-minded stupidity, the endless bloody wars, and inevitable death, people have gone on and on constructing things of beauty.” – Kieran Egan. Teaching as Story Telling. The Althouse Press: London, 1986 pg 109 Have a safe and Happy Halloween Everyone!
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We Both Lost
Yesterday, I went to go get gas at Canadian Tire. One of the bonuses of going there is that if you pay with cash, you get Canadian Tire money to use in the store. Last time I went there, I forgot that and paid with my Visa. Well this time, I wasn’t going to forget.…
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We Are Forgetting
I think we are in the process of forgetting a lot of the things we used to know. The irony is that everything is recorded and stored in someway nowadays. With this constant storage and compiling we don’t think we are forgetting anything. It feels like knowledge is readily accessible and that we are in…
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Blog Inaction Day
Yesterday I lamented about the old posts that get forgotten in the blogosphere. Today I have a solution. We need to collectively stop and take a look back. That’s why I am proposing a Blog Inaction Day. That’s right. A day of inaction. A day where all bloggers don’t publish anything. A day where we…
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Blogs are Disposable
You know it’s true. I mean, when was the last time you read a post of any blog that wasn’t the most recent post? Why is it that we always gravitate towards the newest material? We only want to see the latest movies, either at the ciniplex or at the rental store. We only want…
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It’s Just the Way We’re Built
I don’t know why I always manage to put my foot in my mouth. I’ve done it so many times over the years, you’d think I would’ve learned by now. I guess I haven’t though because I did it again today. It was a professional development day and the students had the day off. We…