Last year, the failures were truth and i saw the “small successes” as just weak cop-out justifications. This year, I’ve learned the language of my students and this profession enough to listen to insults and feel for the smoky forms of people-change underneath. Today was the first day of the new semester–thus, the day reality…
read more »I am by most metrics a standard-issue introvert(1). I don’t dislike people, and I find a good conversation to be as fulfilling as the next person. It’s just…I really don’t want to go to your party. I like everyone there one at a time, but I can’t manage all of you at once for more…
read more »… annnnnd, we’re up again. I’m sitting in my living room with a cup of very hot cocoa, a blasting heater, and a cat on my feet. My laptop is warming my lap, and my to-do list is warming the arm of the (free) mauve recliner I’m sitting in (P.S. in case I haven’t told…
read more »I have noticed that I write a lot of my posts with the incoming corps member as my intended audience, but I did not necessarily intend for this to be the case from the onset. So, I’m curious: who is reading this thing? If you are someone who reads this blog with some regularity or…
read more »When you enter TFA, you start talking about the Big Goal. This is some quantitative measure which, if achieved, should ostensibly mean that your students are on a Transformational Path. I taught for one year prior to joining TFA. I absorbed my school’s low ranking, determined this year to pull us out of the doldrums. …
read more »Whether or not you teach Special Education, you will have to teach students who get special education services. While SpEd teachers and case managers can be of great services in navigating the how-to’s of accommodations, the best person to talk to is the Licensed Specialist in School Psychology, heretofore known as the LSSP(1). I’m not…
read more »When you move to San Antonio, you may notice stray animals. Often. They might even wander into your school on occasion (usually in the mornings, in my experience). Our city does not do a great job of caring for animals considering we still kill healthy stray animals due to lack of caregivers and shelter space.…
read more »One of the joys and privileges of teaching high school is having the opportunity to coach students you might not see in your own classrooms. Athletics gets all the local press, but the academic events are where the action is. Many of the schools that we serve have a palpable shortage of teachers willing to…
read more »With our church group, my wife and I marched with 100,000 people on Monday at San Antonio’s MLK Day march. Every year, San Antonio has one of the largest MLK Day marches in the country. TFA applicants, if you are looking for a city to join…I’m just saying.
read more »My posting has been on hiatus due to the passing of my grandmother last week. It was not unexpected though no less sad. She was born in Galveston but moved to San Antonio at age 3 when her father got a job working at the San Antonio Light printing press. She graduated from Brackenridge High…
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