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November Blasts

This month just flew by!

  • Last week we started every day 2 hours late! Despite every school around us closing on Tuesday, we braved through it and thus saved our snow days for future... or an extra day off in April. Which is nice too!
  • Conferences were. Apparently, if junior and senior parents aren't really that interested in attending. I got some grading done.
  • I'm behind in grading again. I know you're shocked too!
  • I've managed to take two days off for RTI. I've finally got charts filled out for all our current intervention students and started the list of those to "watch." Hopefully, I can arrange for another day in the next week or so to go over those lists.
  • I'm looking forward to doing A Christmas Carol with my senior AP students. Finally, a group that doesn't need two-thirds of the description explained to them. But first A Modest Proposal. I think it'll make a fine intro to the Scrooge like public Dickens was skewering.
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