In between today's Election Day professional development sessions and my track practice with the Van Cortlandt Track Club tonight, it's time to launch this blog. I already keep a blog that is directed toward my students at ccaahistory.blogspot.com. This blog will be aimed at educators, students of history, and other interested adults. In general, I'll try to write a paragraph or two before I leave school each day, usually to reflect on a lesson I've delivered or some experience at school. I probably won't be able to resist an occasional post on current events or education policy. So, to begin...
How good it is to work with people that you respect and really like! It's been my good fortune, every year, to work with colleagues who take their jobs seriously and put in valuable extra time with our students. Today, we worked out details for next week's field trip to Yale, chose the winners of the eighth grade neighborhood scavenger hunt, threw around ideas for a spring break overnight trip to DC, learned how to use our new computer lab, assigned struggling high school students to after-school teacher-led tutoring groups, organized our classrooms, mapped out the next few days of history lessons, and discussed some of our highest-risk eighth graders. This sort of stuff can only happen when there is mutual respect among faculty--and when administrators trust faculty with the kinds of decisions we were making today.
Thanks, friends.
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