In the Lou

I received an email tonight from one of the members of my 12-person learning group. She wanted to call this upcoming week of Institute “Friday Week.” Her theory was that, in the same way getting to Friday — the fifth day — has some magical, uplifting, energizing quality, so too should getting to the fifth week of our five week experience here. So, now that you (hopefully) get the idea: Happy Friday week. (more…)

In my attempt to keep in touch, here comes week 3’s installment.

First, Wednesday of this past week marked the official 50% mark of my Institute experience. On Thursday, though the schedule showed an afternoon of workshops, we actually got out of school at 1 pm for TFA Day — that’s Totally Free Afternoon day. :) It was most excellent.

Low point of the week: Having planned an excellent lesson and awesome demonstration to teach converting verbal phrases into algebraic expressions (i.e. five more than x), I realized once I was about to open my mouth to start things that I had left my materials bag in my prep room. This was very awkward, (more…)