Last week in Greensboro a main line in a water supply system broke near a local elementary school. It was midmorning. A conclusion was quickly drawn that no water meant no school. But wait a minute! School would go on. Bathroom accommodations were made (another school, which was unaffected, is just across the parking lot),…
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Gone Fishin’
I recently read an article that began with the age-old saying “Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.” The author used this saying to separate good teachers from excellent ones. Her point was that excellent teachers teach a child…
Making the Most of These Days
It is my belief that every day you have students in your classroom is a day to educate. That includes the very last days of school. As much as I yearned for the opportunity to slack off a little, maybe show a film adaptation of a novel we had read, I rarely gave my students…