Four Perspectives - Education

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I forgot to mention that I posted today over at Four Perspectives…of course, if you already subscribe and knew that, then you are doubly awesome. If you read my blog a year ago, you will just find a reminder to my students - as well as myself.

Moments with Joey – Super Atomic Wedgies

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SCENE 1, INTERIOR. NOON, LUNCHROOM. The teacher is eating lunch with his fifth graders. He listens to several conversations about who did what over the weekend, who is who’s latest crush, and what the preferred after-school snack is amongst many other topics of conversation. The teacher is tapped on the shoulder by the ten year-old boy sitting next to him.

JOEY: Hey, Mr. Z?

TEACHER: What’s up?

JOEY: Have you ever gotten a wedgie before?

TEACHER: A wedgie?

JOEY: Yeah, it’s when somebody grabs your underwear and pulls it up so that –

TEACHER: [Cutting him off]. I know what a wedgie is, Joey.

JOEY: So, have you ever had one before?

TEACHER: Sorry to let you down…nope.

JOEY: My favorite is the yo-yo wedgie.

TEACHER: You have a favorite?

JOEY: Yeah, there’s the yo-yo wedgie, the chilly wedgie, the dangling wedgie…

TEACHER: And you know about all of these different types?

JOEY: [Nodding]. Yeah, but the yo-yo is my favorite; yo-yos are awesome.

TEACHER: I don’t know what to be more disturbed about…the fact that you know so many different types, or that you have a favorite one.

JOEY: I got one once where I could almost taste it in my mouth…

TEACHER: Sounds like a Super Atomic Wedgie.

JOEY: Yeah, that’s why I wear boxers now...

Fade to black.

The 20-20-20-20 Challenge

Pin It I recently decided to do a challenge.

Twenty feet. By

Twenty feet.

Twenty minutes.

Twenty images.

After I arrived at the destination I selected tonight I questioned if it were really a good place to take photos. At first I saw nothing but the sun blinding through the overpass and the sunflowers. 

The rest came when I began to look a little bit deeper…

I took longer than 20 minutes.

Media of the Week - Undeniable

Pin It Can I just tell you how much I love this song? It's true...we are all undeniably brilliant.



I love this song, too.

The Original Twilight

Pin It Being on a first name basis with the school librarian does yield it’s rewards...

I couldn’t put it down.

Late Nights and Student Expectations

Pin It The onset of the school year has left me up late for the past several nights planning lessons, grading assignments, and finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with anything which is not school.

Reading blogs has now started to slip into the backseat, although I have been trying to keep up with the rising tide.

I came home at nearly 9 p.m. tonight after a set of late student assessments, a college class, and a handful of Wheat Thins for dinner. I headed downstairs and turned on What About Bob so that I could listen as I dealt with the tracking of files, recording of student testing scores, sorting and organizing parent helper surveys, and finally tackling the stack of 28 journal entries just waiting to be read. One hour stretched into three as I finished one project only to move on to the next - all sandwiched in the dreaded blue tote...

I was feeling the weight of the year already upon my shoulders when I came across one particular little journal entry set to the topic of his expectations of the upcoming year...

Welcome back, Joey; I'll try my hardest not to overdo it...

Rites of Passage

Pin It So it's Tuesday, and I am posting over at Four Perspectives - nearly 12 hours late.

My apologies for keeping you waiting.

I am a jerk-face.