It’s hard to take it Pretend. Go Along. Fake it. A half hour meeting About fire drill procedures We talked about this last week This actually happened. We had a whole staff meeting after school, maybe 150 people, about emergency procedures for this or that sort of emergency. That was the once-a-month all hands meeting for an hour after school. Fine. Talk about whatever you want. All I have to do is sit in a chair and I’m already in the building anyway. Plus there’s snacks. But then the next Read more [...]
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Routines, rituals and procedures Predictability, norms and limits Teenagers crave these things Really, they do The Research tells us But I’m a grown up And I hate all that shit Plus I like to swear Sorry…I’m not sure the poem matches the sentiment today, and for that I apologize. But among the many memos that greeted us this morning, one noted that this, the beginning of a New Year, was an opportunity to reaffirm the norms of the school, our classrooms, procedures, rules, routines, etc, etc, Read more [...]
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