by Dawn | Nov 13, 2015 | education reform, Teaching
Friday. God’s gift to the universe. “You’ve got to send me the calendar dates not the days,” said my friend. “Days of the week mean nothing to me.” That’s how it is in the rest of the world. Not schools. Days of the week...
by Dawn | Dec 20, 2013 | family
Friday. TGIF. The last day…before Christmas break. The world is rejoicing. We…just…have…to…survive…today. I brought the gifts I made for my advisory students yesterday. Getting a jump on Christmas, like most of America. I forgot two...
by Dawn | Nov 21, 2012 | family, music, parenting, religion, satire, simplicity, sustainability
Christmas appeared early this year in our local stores–about three weeks before the Fourth of July, I think. It’s not that I don’t love the site of a freshly-decorated fake tree with a pine-smelling air freshener trying to convince me it’s...
by Dawn | Sep 9, 2012 | education reform, politics, satire, Teaching
I just got the folder back. It’s been a week, and you’d think I would know how to dress a kid and send him to school, considering I teach and I have 240 kids on my own high school roster. But I’m failing. Kindergarten at that. The first day, I sent the wrong...
