December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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When I Get Home From School
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“Kids who learn two languages young are better able to learn abstract rules and...”
– A neuroscientist explains the benefits of bilingualism today on Fresh Air. (via nprfreshair)
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“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”
– Ursula LeGuin (via cavesoflilith)
August 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Is there something going on here? Is there... →
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March 2011
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February 2011
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Gas Giant
Jackson: (as he finishes reading me his report on Saturn) ....."Saturn is a gas giant."
Me: Ohhhh, I really like your conclusion Jackson.
Jackson: Thanks. (smiles and walks away, making incredibly audible and hilarious fart noises as he does so)
Me: Jackson, you are not a gas giant. Save that for the playground, please.
Jackson: (laughing, laughing, laughing) Okay.
January 2011
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Undivided Attention by Taylor Mali
A grand piano wrapped in quilted pads by movers, tied up with canvas straps - like classical music’s birthday gift to the insane - is gently nudged without its legs out an eighth-floor window on 62nd street.
It dangles in April air from the neck of the movers’ crane, Chopin-shiny black lacquer squares and dirty white crisscross patterns hanging like the second-to-last note of a...
December 2010
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“Waffles give me gas. But it’s okay because it’s MY body.”
– Taylor, first grader
November 2010
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More evidence that I have a hearing problem
Knoah: What if you were a lizard?
Me: I don't understand the question, "what if you were a lizard?" What?
Knoah: Noooooo, I said, "what is your religion?"
Me: Ohhhhhhhh
I know a sprung first grader
Me: How you doing today, Dillan?
Dillan: Oh well, you know.
Me: Well, actually I don't, that's why I asked.
Dillan: I'm sprung.
Me: Excuse me?
Dillan: I'M SPRUNG!
Me: Dillan, do you know what that means?
Dillan: No.
Me: I don't think it's a good idea to use words that you don't understand. Where did you hear that word?
Dillan: From the T-Pain song, "I'm Sprung."
Me: Oh. You should ask your mom what that means.
Dillan: Okay. Actually, I'm just bored right now.
“I love you Mr. ________ and I love your balls!”
– Olivia, first grader, to her gym teacher
October 2010
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Watch“If you eat that school lunch, you better stay away from that rectangular pizza. You know why? Because it is nasty, yeah….yeah yeah.
I always have to remind myself that no matter how hungry I may be, the rectangular pizza is never, never a good idea.
September 2010
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Don't be prostheltyzing on my federally funded...
Field trip: Festival in the Park Favorite Moment: telling the men giving out free mini bibles, “no thanks, we go to a PUBLIC SCHOOL.”
BETTER RECOGNIZE.
“Ummmm. I need tell you something. I like to learn. I like coming to school...”
– first grader in my class
August 2010
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I wanted to die.
In attempt to keep a chair from falling off a table onto one child, I knocked another chair off the table onto a different child.
No really, I promise, I DO want to work here!
I'm back y'all!
1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders…oh my.
July 2010
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13 Great Books for Gay Teens →
Books grab you by your collar, pull you up and whisper in your face, “you are not alone”.
May 2010
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March 2010
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Legendary East L.A. math teacher Jamie Escalante... →
February 2010
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College is supposed to be relevant? →
“And in a class called “The English Major in the Workplace,” at the University of Texas, Austin, students read “Death of a Salesman” but also learn to network, write a résumé and come off well in an interview.”
January 2010
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“Ms. B., you are kindhearted, but you look like you could wild out on someone in...”
– 9th grade student…I’m just happy because she used one of the character traits from the character study worksheet for “Thank You, M’am.”