Posted in Our students on Jun 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
If everything goes well, of our 120 graduating seniors, we’re set to graduate 31 Native American students this year. Have to tell you I didn’t even think about that until a very good friend called me this week to say,
Kim, it’s being talked about on the Cattaraugus Territory that Gowanda is graduating a record number [...]
Posted in Learning, Our students, Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2007 3 Comments »
Here’s the thing about working with kids. It’s not like managing employees where we can talk about separating one’s personal life from one’s professional life. It’s all mixed in together and sometimes it’s messy.
Take today for example. It’s only Monday and I spent a good portion of the day talking to students and parents about [...]
Posted in Our students, Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2007 5 Comments »
Here we are in Frankfurt, Germany waiting for the connection to Philadelphia. We have a four hour layover. Having left the hotel at 3:45 this morning and facing about 24 hours of travel, our small group of nine is surprisingly upbeat, though anxious to be home with our families. It hit me yesterday, missing my [...]
Posted in Our students on Apr 15th, 2007 5 Comments »
It´s the last morning of our ten day trip, other than the final travel day home. I woke up early, I suppose it´s because I´m excited about the day. When I called Tallon´s room to wake them up for the trip to the flea market, they elected to sleep, but I tried to be convincing [...]
Posted in Our students on Apr 14th, 2007 3 Comments »
Yes, that´s what I´m known as now, the Gypsy Mama. Mrs. Dempsey is the Gypsy Queen. Otis, John, Tallon, and Jimmy have developed a strange fascination with the gypsies. When they come home speaking like Borat, please fix them.
John says it´s ¨crazy, crazy¨ here. They are helping me with this post, so it should be [...]
Posted in Our students, Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2007 10 Comments »
Good Grief. 7 euros for 30 minutes and a French keyboard, I must be dedicated to this blogging gig. Yesterday, we traveled by train to France and then visited Notre Dame and Sacre Coeur. My favorite part of France is the artist square and I purchased a wonderful trio of paintings there to remember my trip [...]
Posted in Our students on Apr 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
Anyone who’s ever visited London may find it hard to believe, but the weather here is fantastic. Not even a jacket needed, sunny skies, gorgeous. Yesterday was a jam packed day filled with Windsor Castle and a “Jack the Ripper” tour, among many other things. The Jack the Ripper tour took us to a different [...]
Posted in Our students on Apr 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
I cannot even believe our government. One of our students applied for her passport months ago and has not received it. We leave tomorrow morning. It’s not even in transit. Her mother has tried every contact she can think of and no luck. I don’t even know what recourse she has or if she loses [...]
Posted in Our students on Feb 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Go and read The Emotional Side of Self Learning over at Will Richardson’s Weblogg-ed. It’s a great post about how our students cope with the information they gather as self learners online. Will links to Rob Mancabelli at Educational Thinking who says,
At my session on the Changing Role of the Teacher, one of the participants [...]
Posted in Blogging, Our students on Feb 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
I have been posting to this blog since July. In more than 100 blog posts, I have never stopped a comment from posting until now. I have a topic posted regarding a small group of students in our Physics class. I have allowed all but two comments. As students write comments, of which I am very [...]
