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Month: November 2023

Imagine

An imaginary email:

Thank you for attending the Q2 Student Progress Monitoring meeting with Bob Smith from the district office. As we prepare to engage in the Q3 Student Progress Monitoring process, please discuss and have one person from your collaborative team respond to this email no later than 4pm on Thursday. Please Cc: Bob Smith when you respond.

  • Question 1: What is the title of your current unit of study and what date do you anticipate finishing this unit?
  • Question 2: What is the title of your next unit of study and what date do you anticipate beginning this unit?

Let me know if you have any questions/concerns.

An imaginary response:

Thank you for your email thanking me for my attendance at the mandatory meeting. I appreciate the chance to sit with my colleagues and hear from someone at the district office how to do my job. Since I'm completely unfamiliar with monitoring student progress having taught only 24 years now, I appreciated the refresher of the basic ideas with which only the rawest of new teachers are unfamiliar. However, given the amount of time it took to fill out the forms your method required, I think I will have to politely decline further participation. I trust the district office will understand that my experience should suffice.

Games

Lights

Monday

Monday after a break is always an interesting experience. I seem to have planned it right with these kids, though: their first day of playing the Odyssey games they made.

Back home, Babcia and K work on acclimating Babcia to new technology, specifically how to use What's App to make phone calls.

Finally, just before heading to bed, it's time for Babcia's favorite pastime.

Backlog

Spent some time here and there over this long weekend adding old pictures from years ago to this site so it's less of a blog and more of a general chronicle.

Isle of Palms 2023

Friday Evening Downtown

Thanksgiving 2023

Before

Babcia Has Arrived

It's been ten years since Babcia last came for a visit here. She wanted to, but then again, there was always something: the noclegi business; Covid; other obligations; a bit of nervousness about the whole process.

But now the noclegi business is history, Covid is a manageable worry, and other obligations no longer are. It was still a stressful process for her.