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World’s Shortest Epistolary Novel
Email 1: School secretary, to whole school Remember everybody, if you're going to the holiday party, you need to RSVP as soon as possible. Email 2: Me, to school secretary…
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Things That Are Currently Annoying Me
Summer is great and all, but that doesn't mean that everything is hunky dory all the time. To wit: The version of Sports Night available on Netflix replaces Neil Finn's…
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Matthew 6:21
Last week I posted this article about the need to raise teacher salaries. While I am aware that this issue enjoys something less than Mom and apple pie levels of…
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I Am Not A Cuddly, Huggy Teacher
I wrote this a couple months ago as a kind of manifesto to take to a school leadership team meeting for which we had been asked to bring suggestions for where the school should go next year. I churned out two pages of righteous not-quite-fury without getting around to making any policy suggestions, then ultimately decided that however great my passion, the tone was not right for the venue. So I left the screed at home and just showed up and talked about my ideas. I’m confident it was the right call. Still, I hate to waste a good rant…
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The Sirius Cybernetic Corporation defines intelligence as "...the ability to reconcile totally contradictory situations without going completely bonkers". By that definition, when it comes to Halloween, I'm a freaking genius. …