Yay! Fabulous news: student PB, moved up TWO reading levels this week! Recap: PB came to my school last March, and is now a 17 year old senior. He started on the Reading A-Z scale at a K, which is where a 7-8 year old should be reading, right at the beginning of 2nd grade.… [Read more…]
January 25, 2010
It’s been a rough two weeks at school. We had our first big fight the Friday before last, in which the principal and a teacher were hit, and had minor injuries, and in which the school police officer sprained a wrist and broke her finger. These kinds of fights are routine at many neighborhood schools… [Read more…]
December 21, 2009
Today is the first snow day of the year! Very exciting, actually, since I really wasn’t expecting it. We got a lot of snow – a foot, maybe a little more? – but I remembered the more recent DC school closings, ever since my high school started following the DC public schools. We NEVER had… [Read more…]
November 20, 2009
SORRY GUYS! Especially James. I’ve been slacking at updating this, and then it seemed so daunting to try and recap everything that’s happened that I just got scared to update, but let’s see. I am still teaching Corrective Reading – four classes and three levels of it, actually. On Monday/Weds/Fridays, I see only my level… [Read more…]
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