Speech to the Young: “Weeklies”

Introduced “weeklies” today as a means to traverse that 8th-grade-to-high-school (or, 8ghs) divide, and I’m not quite sure if the kids truly understood the meaning behind my madness, or whether they were simply doing as I asked because, well, sometimes kids do what adults say without question.
It can’t be the latter, though. They haven’t [...]

Back to School

It’s been a while since our school had a “Back to School Night,” wherein we normally invite parents to visit the school, along with their child(ren), to see how the school operates. Most teachers do not attend this gathering, save the 6th grade teachers who do so because their students are new to the [...]