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Classroom Set Up

I’m so freaking exhausted it’s not even funny. So instead of doing the responsible thing and going to bed I’m up and writing to all of you. I’ve spent the last two days on campus going cleaning and set up crazy. I’ve thrown away so much crap that was shoved in cabinets at the start of the pandemic that it feels almost like I’m starting this year with a clean slate. I’ve spent much of the last…

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Late Night Emails

10 pm emails on your work account are never a good thing. 10 pm emails from your superintendent are even worst. So the boss emails last night in regards to fall reopening. It’s a VERY long email that amounts to NO INFORMATION whatsoever. I’m serious it says nothing. All they do is quote articles about safe reopening’s and says that we will align to what ever the county and state decides. Schools…

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Summer School

Got to say I missed being in a classroom. I really did. Distance learning doesn’t compare to being in front of a group of students. Summer school was actually all right. I finish up the last day this Thursday and despite having seventh graders it wasn’t awful at all. The kids, for the most part, did really well wearing the masks though after 3 weeks (6 for those who did both sessions) they are…

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Guess Whose Back and Teaching Summer School

Guess Whose Back and Teaching Summer School

Guess whose back, back again. Slight copyright infringement tell a friend. Just kidding about the infringement I give credit were credit is due! I’m back for now (let’s see how long this will last with the chaos of my life). So the 2020-2021 school year is officially over! Thank God. Overall it wasn’t a terrible year. I did the entire year on distance learning which is an experience I truly hope…

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Clearly Everything is My Fault

Clearly Everything is My Fault

I mean that line pretty much says it all. I say this not because I’m feeling pity for myself (I mean who am I kidding what little self-esteem I did have has been destroyed by this pandemic) but because social media and the world have decided that me (as a teacher) am at fault for everything. So some back story, my school board had a meeting this week and unanimously decided to not return to…

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WandaVision

Well that was something. I’ll admit when WandaVision started 8 some odd weeks ago I was skeptical. The first two episodes didn’t really wow me. But, as the story progressed and the weeks went on I grew to enjoy the show more and more and I, like many others, was eager for this weeks finale. *Spoilers ahead* And I like, many others who have by now seen the finale, am just a touch disappointed.…

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Long Time No Post

Long Time No Post

Hello Peoples of the internet! It has been a long time since my last post primarily because the later half of my 2020 sucked. My dad died. Not due to COVID or anything he lost his 5 year battle with colon cancer. It sucks to say the least. The road leading up to his passing wasn’t easy either but I now feel suddenly compelled to write again. Distance learning has been a thing. I hate it but I…

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Back at it

I’m done. I’m so over distance learning! So sorry for the radio silence I decided to take a break from everything over the summer and I’m glad that I did.

I’ve just started week 4 of 100% distance learning and I’m exhausted. Just utterly exhausted. I don’t know if it’s the sitting all day or the fact that my brain can’t seem to shut off but I end the day want to just lay on my floor in silence…

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How much is to much?

How much is to much?

So about two weeks ago our administration asked teachers to provide a weekly over view of what we were going to be teaching each week. They asked that the overview included such things like:

Exact times we were going to be online for either office hours or live teaching

What assignments we were assigning throughout the day/ what stories we were reading

When said assignments were due

Now this…

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Long Time No See

Long Time No See

Weeks been a whirlwind that I am now coming down from so lets dive in.

First up next school year. As with every school in the country there is a lot of uncertainty  around what next year will look like. Will we still be online? Will the schools be physically open? Will we be starting in July (as the Governor of California suggested earlier this week)? For me however, there was added level of…

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SERIOUSLY?!

These last 48 hours have been a trail in patients and the constant screaming of ‘what the hell’?’ So I finally worked up the courage to inquire about the coaching positions I had written about in a previous posts. The HR person got back to me and apparently I need my principals permission just to apply. I could understand if they offer was extended and the transfer needed to be approved but to…

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Back to the online grind

First Monday back from spring break and there was good news and bad news in my online classroom today. Good news 90% of my kids actually logged onto schoology today (woot!). Bad news only like 20% actually did anything :|. Still the 90% log in is at least a step in the right directions I’m wondering if this will keep up tomorrow (doubtful but we’ll see!).

I have a lot of teacher friends who are…

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Spring Break and My Stupid Brain

Hello Hello,

So this week is my Spring Break and given everything that  was going on I had decided not to do work stuff Monday-Friday of this week and focus on myself. For the most part the week had gone pretty well. Spent Monday and Tuesday doing absolutely nothing and Wednesday on getting a lot of little projects out of the way. Sounds great right? Well as you can imagine it did all come…

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Craziness

The Craziness of my teaching day

Sorry for the lack of update yesterday. After I finished teaching I just passed out and slept. Honestly it feel great to sleep.

More and more kids are steadily logging in and finally turning in more and more assignments. Of course we go on spring break next week so we’ll see if they can keep it up after that. Thankfully, because of my district being able to start online teaching right away our…

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Timing

As per usual a good turn out for today’s online afternoon lesson. The kids seem to be really enjoying them (or at least really enjoying seeing each other and humoring me by pretending to be interested in the lesson. Did I mention I also have crippling self  doubt issues?).

So as a I mentioned before how I have been teaching online includes office hours from 8:15-9:00 and 1:30-2:00 and Live…

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Full of Doubt

Full of Doubt about the future

So first I’ll start with the kids. So surprisingly had a few students during morning office hours and my morning ELA lesson. It was nice seeing them and having them want to actually work (yay). Afternoon still seems to be my biggest draw in terms of student count as I had 12 students show up for today’s lesson (woot). Only thing that could have made it better would have been if all 12 of those…

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Digimon Adventure 2020

My thoughts on the #Digimon Adventure 2020 reboot! #Digimon #DigimonAdventure #Crunchyroll

I was that kid, the kid that loved Digimon more than Pokemon. I still stand by the statement that Digimon is the far superior show Pokemon just had better marketing. That being said I have still a huge fan to this day so I will try to keep my review on this as unbiased as possible which is why I’m letting you the reader know this information  ahead of time.

In honor of the shows 20th anniversary…

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