100 Day Project – Day 38 – 8:56 pm There were two lightbulb moments today: one for a student, and one for me. An Introduction to Early Childhood Student had a really obvious lightbulb moment. I ask students to have Reading Talks. They have read an assignment, responded to it in writing and come prepared [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 36 – 9:55 (This is yesterday’s posting.) This afternoon on a walk with my five-year-old granddaughter, we stopped to admire a few ants — we were already carrying a Wooly Bear caterpillar in a jar with us (doesn’t everyone know that even caterpillars need afternoon exercise?) — and she informed [...]
Apple’s Board of Directors wrote: We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today (Weds Oct 5, 2011) Steve’s brilliance, passion, and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve. His greatest love was for his wife, [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 29 – 8:03 p.m. Less is more in so many ways in life. Today, personally, I could sure do with less grief. Too much to explain, but too many losses too quickly in the last three months. Professionally, less is more in terms of my assigned readings for my classes [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 28 – 12:49 p.m. First a word about the numbering of days: For those of you who care, and frankly, I’m not sure anyone does, somehow I skipped from Day 22 to Day 28. In my real life that was only 3 days – the weekend – since I last [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 22 – 9:40 a.m. (a day late) When teaching is challenging, ask yourself what Mr. Rogers would do. (Those of my readers who know me, know that Mr. Rogers is my all time favorite person in the world – not counting family, of course.) I’ve had a great week teaching, [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 21 – 8:04 p.m. Today at the community college where I teach the librarians hosted a Banned Book reading. The librarians had a few excerpts to read, and others brought readings as well. We heard segments from Harry Potter, Lolita, And Tango Makes Three and the entire Howl. I was [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 18 – 1:45 p.m. (when I started) “Here’s the lesson: If you have something to say on the page, don’t hesitate. Don’t procrastinate. Don’t make excuses. Seize every moment you find to write. Honor your voice and your stories. Starting now. Because this moment is all we have–take it from [...]
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100 Day Project – Day 15 – 9:17 p.m. Today was a teaching high! Last fall in a 100 level course for pre-service early care and education students, I introduced the concept of deciding what you will read when. Well, it’s not really choosing what you will read of any material – but what you [...]
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100 Days Project – Day 11 – 8:31 p.m. “Ten. At the end of the day, good teaching is about having fun, experiencing pleasure and intrinsic rewards … like locking eyes with a student in the back row and seeing the synapses and neurons connecting, thoughts being formed, the person becoming better, and a smile [...]
