In the Lou

I think that someone has dropped some sort of foreign substance into the water supply of Jefferson City, Mo. The substance, though, is causing intelligent decision making. (more…)

Yesterday, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education voted to implement a take-over of the St. Louis Public Schools district. This is, as you can imagine, big news. (more…)

I’m ready to resume writing this week. I needed to internally process some things around me in life, so I took a break (including a 16 hour night of sleeping last weekend).

I actually did write a nice long post more than a week ago, but it was accidentally deleted when my internet connection went out during the writing process. It’s probably for the better, as it was somewhat negative and focused on some of the student actions that were unsettling to me (such as fighting).

In this installment

• “I am not a bad teacher,” or “My latest Teach for America review”
• “You can take the kids out of the ‘hood, and when you do,” or “My first field trip”
• “Analogy for the analogy king,” or “Professional development”

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