Archive for May, 2009

Three Graduations

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Brighton Heritage
BHA fills a particular niche in our school district.  It serves kids who have not found a home, or not ever looked for one, at what we think of as a traditional high school.  I have written before about how moving their graduations are, and this latest one on Thursday was no exception.  Three [...]

A short history of my life for the past month…

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Such a long time since I’ve written anything, and so much has happened in the last few weeks.  Partly I’ve been snowed under, and partly I wanted the announcement about the blog party to be the first thing people saw when they visited the blog.  Hope you’re coming…
We had the fourth day of classroom formative [...]

Blog Party

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

I decided it would be fun to invite readers of my blog to a party.  My house, Friday, May 29, 4 p.m.  Call or email if you need directions.

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More on Taleb…

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Well, obviously lots of people have read The Black Swan and really liked it.  Someone passed on Taleb’s web site to me, so here it is: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/
There are other books by him and articles about his ideas that are worth checking out.
And in the meantime, we continue to monitor the swine flu information.

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Swine and swans

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

As I mentioned before, last week was a tough week.  It became clear on Wednesday that we were going to have to do some serious thinking about the swine flu situation.  Terry Lucero, one of the most competent humans on the planet, and I met and talked about who we needed to pull into [...]

3rd Grade Reading CSAP scores

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

I’m in Portland for a class on systems–more on that later–and yesterday when I was on my way here I was really having a tough time; I’ve been sick, the plane was late, I’d spent much of the last couple of days thinking about swine flu, and so on.  But today things were already better–intellectual [...]