by Dawn | Aug 29, 2013 | Teaching
“Tell me how you liked the book.” We sat in the professor’s parlor–about ten or twelve of us, a small history cohort. The professor was an old-style academic from the Midwest, who had completed his masters’ degree at the university where...
by Dawn | Aug 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
They roam around school–freshmen. Lost. Their first day. “Miss,” they say, “where’s…” “Miss, how do I get to….” “Check your schedule,” I say. “If there’s an ‘A,’ you...
by Dawn | Aug 26, 2013 | spirituality, Teaching, Zen
I need a prayer to inspire the first day of school–a prayer useful to the religious and secular alike. I took a philosophy course on a bet once, learning about the nature of prayer in the process. My friend, the future electrical engineer, said he was smarter...
by Dawn | Aug 25, 2013 | technology
The phone rang. I don’t use the phone for calling much anymore–it’s sort of a mini dictator that chimes and pings, commanding me to do certain things–answer you, be amused by your blog post, watch a video, work, attend something, look at photos...
by Dawn | Aug 24, 2013 | education reform, Teaching
I’m writing my “Welcome Letter” to students. It’s going to a blog post this year. I’m trying to save trees–it’s a pain in the ass to get more paper when I run out. I have to requisition paper just to make the forms to get the...
