Category: Students
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Today was the first day back after spring break. It is also the day before our long and tedious testing period. So I took it “easy” with the students. I helped them with their review packet or I played an academic game with them.
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3. Write a post that begins and ends with the same sentence. I’m always saying I could write a book of stories from my teaching career. Today I was listening to Todrick Hall’s 4 the 2000’s when I heard some songs that remind me of my first couple of years of teaching. One of those…
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Every year, I have a student or two with whom I develop a strong bond and a student or two who, no matter what, don’t see eye to eye. It’s the nature of the game when you are a special education teacher. This year was a little different for me. I started at the middle…
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A year ago yesterday, I read online that a teenager had drowned. They had not released the name then, but my gut feeling told me that I knew the teenager. So I went to my in-laws for dinner, wondering who had drowned. When I got home, they released the teenager’s name. Not only did I…
