Cool Teaching Stuff

good classroom poster! #successisnotastraightline

http://sobadsogood.com/2014/12/11/disturbing-uncensored-artworks-reflect-modern-society/

grading

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Our Principal

woo hoo!

Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare. "Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work," Jennifer Egan once said. Th

very teacher relevant (I'm gonna need lots of wine)

There was once a fictional character named John Keating who said, “We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.” I read poetry. I read a lot of it. And I write it too, because it makes me feel a part of something tremendous and beautiful and tender. A lot of the time I’m inspired by poetry collections that have resonated with me, that have made me feel something intangible and close. A lot of those collections are by women. Strong women who have been through economy-sized portions of terrible and then some. Women who battle against depression, low self-esteem, violence, racism, love in its ugliest forms. Women who have rocky relationships with their parents, or siblings. Or women who love things so much, they don’t know what to do with that love. So they write. In high school and college, we’re taught John Donne. And Walt Whitman. And Edgar Allen Poe. And Shakespeare. And all ...

omg...cool!

put on board for halloween w/ scary music

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