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  • an end

    Number of comments: 4
    Just when I think I can step out of the ubercrap and pretend...I stop and realize that I'm not doing anybody any favors except people who don't need them.  I can't actually retool this blog to be something other than open and honest.  I haven't been able to post much [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 2:56pm EDT
    by em

  • the data bitch keeps her mouth shut

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    Just when I say I'm going to behave myself on the interwebs and not talk so much about my kids, shit flies.

    Yesterday, while on bus duty, a couple of my students from last year were talking about the math teacher quitting.  When the first boy mentioned it to' [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
    by em

  • meet the data bitch, mofos

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    So I have not been blogging and I fully intend on taking down much of my archives and stashing those posts away offline (to the limited extent that anything can be deleted from the internets). But this is not to say that I don't intend to return to blogging, just' [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 6:36pm EDT
    by em

  • state of the blog

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    No comment from this peanut gallery, but it'll be interesting to see how things pan out this school year with the ACSA. I know that I've become pretty disillusioned with education in general in New Orleans and my trust in my school has been shaken severely.

    But my [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 12:15am EDT
    by em

  • trust no one

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    This should be about wrapping up the year. But it's not. It's about getting screwed. It's about trusting those in decision-making positions to make reasonable decisions and trusting that things would work out for the best. It's about being fooled by and disregarded by the very person you trusted to [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 4:37pm EDT
    by em

  • goin' to the conference and we're gonna get nerdy

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    So I'm on layover in Tampa for another 2 hours, poking around the NCTM website to see what looks good and maybe plan out the next couple of days in DC. There is so much juicy mathematical, differentiated instruction, technological, new teacher-oriented goodness on the conference schedule that I' [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2009, 11:09am EDT
    by em

  • spring time equals conference time!

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    I need this shirt to wear to my post-spring break conference in a couple of weeks. I was unable to go to Salt Lake City last year but this year I'm headed to the NCTM Annual Meeting & Expo in Washington, DC. For this, I am super excited' [...]
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    Posted: April 11, 2009, 11:47am EDT
    by em

  • an now for something completely different...

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    Been talking Unapologetic's ear off about my kids lately because it was a tough week of test prep gone bad at school and I'm just frustrated with my students' complete lack of will to succeed lately.

    So I would like to introduce you all, dear interwebs, to some' [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 2:05pm EDT
    by em

  • all the crazy for one day

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    I have not been a good blogger lately. Mostly because I was blogging myself (and teaching myself) into a serious crisis and it was time to take a few steps back and think (or sometimes just fucking stop thinking).

    First: to quit or not to quit?

    Well, circumstances [...]
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    Posted: March 12, 2009, 7:13pm EDT
    by em

  • condoning the violence

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    Even if a kid is an asshole, it doesn't make witnessing his mamma knock him upside the head any less shitty.

    But hey, the other kid whose mamma beats him? Well, we don't want to refer him to child services because "there's a backlog" and it won't do any [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2009, 9:30pm EDT
    by em

  • being adult is the suckiest job EVAR!

    Number of comments: 4
    I will put this out there early: I'm totally masochistic. I must be. Because I don't want to quit my job. While I have this fantasy idea that it would be great and stress-free and life will be better somewhere else - that is bogus. Okay, it may not be [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 6:52pm EST
    by em

  • critical mass

    Number of comments: 1
    Yesterday was low. The past week or so at school was the lowest of the low. Even if it was only low for me. I went in to work with quitting on my mind but no way out and I left feeling like even more dirt because I'd let everybody' [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2009, 6:03pm EST
    by em

  • if you're looking to take up my job

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    It is occurring to me more and more that it isn't about what needs to change in the school, in the kids, in the parents, in the teachers. It's about me not being cut out for this - at least, not being even close to ready or prepared.

    And [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 4:47pm EST
    by em

  • do not admit

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    Most days, I receive an email with an attached document: Do Not Admit List. It gives the names of students who are suspended, what grade they are in, what they have been suspended for, and when they should be returning to school.

    On the one hand, it is a [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2009, 7:29pm EST
    by em

  • this post is way more civil than i feel

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    Tough working environment today. I've actually been feeling good about the overall improvement in class behavior since the return from break, but feel like I'm being sabotaged by peers. My students were pretty cooperative today, focused on taking their iLEAP pre-test in preparation for the LEAP blitz and review. A [...]
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    Posted: January 23, 2009, 5:03pm EST
    by em

  • insomnia purge

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    I feel almost sick at the prospect of going back to work on Monday. Can't sleep due to anxious mental back-and-forth over what to do, how to cope, finding the time, the energy. Forget sick, just frustrated to tears at not being able to just sleep and stop thinking negatively.[...]
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    Posted: January 03, 2009, 1:46am EST
    by em

  • not thinking about school

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    This is what I've been doing over break. Second bag is in the works in gold yarn. My hands actually are starting to hurt from all the crochet madness but it's keeping my brain clear and I get pretties at the end of it. Made [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2008, 10:42am EST
    by em

  • why i don't know if i could ever work at a cushy school

    Number of comments: 1
    I received one card today. It reads as follows:


    "The first day of
    school I looked
    at you and knew
    you were nice
    and would
    fight for your
    students."


    It's always the ones who try your nerves who say something to remind you why you'd be [...]
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    Posted: December 19, 2008, 3:30pm EST
    by em

  • nice work if you can get it

    Number of comments: 1
    Maybe I should just go back to school for a while and live on loans and part-time work.

    I dunno. I'm burned out on this shit. I don't know whether it's me and my own disorganizedness or whether it's because it sucks. It just fucking sucks.

    Forget it. [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2008, 9:59pm EST
    by em

  • a (temporarily) white winter

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    Today I took my kids out for the last 10 minutes of math class and watched them have a snowball fight on the playground. Not something that happens in NOLA very often. The last time it snowed was Christmas four years ago. The time before that was before my time [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2008, 5:09pm EST
    by em

  • it's not the kids

    Number of comments: 2
    Today, one bully of a girl started a fight with one of my new students.

    I left the room, restraining one, and totally lost my cool. I took a walk. I sat in the bed of my truck. I cried out of complete frustration. I tried to go back [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2008, 5:02pm EST
    by em

  • i got tagged?

    Number of comments: 1
    Swampwoman tagged me the other day and it occurred to me that I have no excuse for being so slow to respond. The rules as follows:

    1. Link to the person who tagged you.
    2. Post the rules on your blog.
    3. Write six random things about yourself.
    [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 9:27pm EST
    by em

  • do you really know who is teaching your children? really?

    Number of comments: 2
    I guess now is just as good a time as any to make an update. It was a calm, mostly uneventful day considering that we have the next week off so I'm in a calm and (gasp!) rested mood this evening. I gave the kids a math and a science' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 5:39pm EST
    by em

  • something rotten in denmark

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    Today has been a most discouraging and disturbing day. There is a lot going on in my school that I am concerned about. My children are imperfect and live in a culture that supports abuse, neglect, irresponsibility, and lack of vision. I fight every day to show them something different. [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 7:20pm EST
    by em

  • november 4

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    I voted. Got let out of work early and rushed my butt to the Algiers court house. I told my students that I would not discuss my vote. Some immediately understood that a vote is private. When I refused to say whether I was voting for Obama this morning, there [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 2:46pm EST
    by em

  • the long stretch to thanksgiving

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    There is so much that I want to blog. But I choose my kids. My sanity. Sleep.

    There have been some big disappointments. There is disillusionment. They test me everyday and this year I try to stand at a distance, to keep my emotions out of the picture. And [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 6:01pm EDT
    by em

  • two steps back?

    Number of comments: 1
    So horribly frustrated with my kids right now. I just don't know what to do. I feel like I'm reliving last year. I don't know why they act this way, I don't know why I can't get them to stop taunting each other, I don't know why I can't get' [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2008, 9:57pm EDT
    by em

  • peeking out of the trenches

    Number of comments: 1
    Well, I've been a crap blogger lately. Spending 12, 13, 14, 15 hours a day working. I figured out recently that for every hour that I am actually teaching in the classroom, I spent two hours working outside the classroom either planning or assessing. There must be a more efficient' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 9:16pm EDT
    by em

  • pumpkin time

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    1st math test of the year (Data Analysis & Statistics): finished writing.
    1st science quiz of the year (What is Physical Science?): needs to be corrected.
    Lots of miscellaneous papers in my school bag: have been put off yet again.
    Unit Plan for the next 3 weeks: so not even [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2008, 10:02pm EDT
    by em

  • hurrication 2008: hurricane hillbillies and nola-fugees

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    Completely reliant upon the Twitter community for good Gustav information. WWL is every evacuee's hero where the national news networks are EPIC FAIL. The roomie and I have been fortunate to avoid exposure to much television. Especially concerned about her because her son is still at Gustav-central and while' [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 2:22pm EDT
    by em

  • this rum'n'coke is for my babies

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    Listening to WWL on AM radio. Just me and the roomie and the farm in this little house in a quiet little Pensafuckingcola neighborhood. Getting anxious. Worried about people.

    I forgot what this was like - this being outside your life and waiting for it to start again. Still [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 11:47pm EDT
    by em

  • hurrication - 2008 special edition box set

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    I've been here before. With different people, under different (but not) circumstances. A different life. Sitting on the back steps of my parents' little bay house remembering a time when it didn't have walls or furniture and I sat back here with my two first and best New Orleans friends,' [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2008, 3:12pm EDT
    by em

  • sleep is for people who don't have kids

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    My children are losing their minds in hurricane mode, just like everybody else. Today, I realized first thing that it wasn't even worth fighting the hurricane chatter and trying to be a state standard-abiding GLE pusher. So instead of talking about outliers and data sets, we talked about hurricanes. All' [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2008, 10:33pm EDT
    by em

  • open house - year two

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    So exhausted. Twelve and half hours at school today to stay for Open House. Kids acting up this afternoon. Hell only knows what I'm going to do about it. But there were lots of mamas and grandmas and aunties and one father at school tonight and that is a very' [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 9:40pm EDT
    by em

  • the answer is no

    Number of comments: 2
    Good day in the classroom today overall. My second class of mostly boys needs some serious whip-crackin' but I ain't playin' benefit-of-the-doubt like I did last year. I told the class that if they were going to abuse the privilege of having a voice in my classroom that all their [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2008, 5:39pm EDT
    by em

  • Particularly like the Suspect Device summary ...

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    Particularly like the Suspect Device summary of the education panel for RT3. [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2008, 9:43am EDT
    by em

  • allow me to stand up for my flawed little institution

    Number of comments: 4
    After RT3 yesterday, I was inspired to catch up on the blogs of panelists that I either had never read or only scanned briefly a long time ago.

    Still trying to process a lot of this Dirty South Bureau post, especially the references to TAP and Algiers. But [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2008, 8:10am EDT
    by em

  • and one other thing

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    Cliff mentioned that the principal of his childs's school came to his home to talk to him about the school. And really, I feel like that is a great sign. I have heard too many horror stories about administrations that are uninvolved and out-of-touch and, to me, that is the [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2008, 7:04pm EDT
    by em

  • more rising tide mental purging

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    Rising Tide III was worth skipping derby, if only to give me things to chew on in my blog. While everything else was interesting in its own right, I'm still mentally stuck on all the things said during the education panel because that's really the only area under discussion where [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2008, 6:18pm EDT
    by em

  • the past, present, and future of elementary and secondary education in new orleans

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    Edit: Hit up Maitri for a good outline of the panel discussion.

    Can't think fast enough, can't type fast enough, can't make connections fast enough. I've got a couple pages of frantic handwritten notes that I'm trying to compile into something coherent as this panel wraps up and [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2008, 11:48am EDT
    by em

  • teh geek

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    Blogging the Rising Tide III - wifi is a marvelous invention.

    Actually just sitting here drinking coffee and being totally weirded out by seeing so much of the N.O. blogger community in person for the first time last night and today.

    Edit for 11:01 - and so begins [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2008, 9:37am EDT
    by em

  • playing hooky?

    Number of comments: 1
    So I think I'm gonna hit the Rising Tide conference on Saturday morning. It's derby bootcamp this weekend but I can't really afford to drive to Houma and spend that much time when I need to be focused on school right now. No, that's just my excuse to go rub [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2008, 9:51pm EDT
    by em

  • half days are teh rule!

    Number of comments: 2
    Our first week of school has been all half days due to air conditioner issues in the building. How brilliant life would be if there were more half days in the world. I get so much work done in the afternoons when the children are gone. More collaborating, more copies, [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2008, 5:07pm EDT
    by em

  • yay for good teacher days!

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    The first two days of school are making me feel a little spoiled. Even with half days I am exhausted but - so far - I'm not terribly stressed. I am still looking forward to that familiarity with my students but I know that isn't something that you can affect [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2008, 6:13pm EDT
    by em

  • the first day of school: year two

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    The first day of my second year of teaching has come and gone, serving only to reinforce something I began to believe pretty early on last school year. While the first year of teaching is necessary, kids who get a first year teacher are going to miss out on some [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 4:46pm EDT
    by em

  • t-minus 9 hours to kid time

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    Tired. Unprepared. Terrified of new student dynamics. But my classroom looks pretty good. New layout, new toys. More tomorrow. Sleep is now.

    [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2008, 11:38pm EDT
    by em

  • t-minus 4 days

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    I don't even have students yet and I am absolutely exhausted. Lots of work has been done in my classroom and I hope to take some pictures and post them up tomorrow.

    On a disappointing note, I realized today that having three 6th grade classes is impossible. I [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 5:22pm EDT
    by em

  • on the job again

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    Today was the teachers' first day officially back on the job at ye olde John McDonogh #32 Literacy Charter School (one of oh-so-many exciting changes that have been going on while I've been in my summer hibernation). There was so much at the morning introduction that I had to take [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2008, 8:57pm EDT
    by em

  • t-minus 8 days

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    I've fallen off the face of the earth, swimming in the abyss of time and heat and paralyzing fear and pure laziness that has been my summer hermitage. But is the eve of my return to the working world.

    I get a brand new batch of children on August [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2008, 10:37pm EDT
    by em

  • the summer countdown

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    It's really overwhelming, the whole thing. Second year is coming up if I can get my act together. It has to be a better year for my kids, or else why am I doing it?

    About a month left of my summer. And it is beginning to sink [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2008, 1:12pm EDT
    by em
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