Lesson One – Black Tie Affair Consider yourself notified…the McClungs are coming on June 3rd. Since I made the announcement a couple of weeks ago my students have been very interested in what exactly the McClungs are. Last year following our annual 8th grade awards assembly I noticed that a small population of our students…

Lesson One – Get Your Regalia On Tomorrow the University of Arkansas will be holding it’s spring commencement for the class of 2011. This commencement is especially important to me because I will be graduating tomorrow with my masters in educational leadership. Through the years that I have been working on my masters I have…

Lesson One – U-S-A! One of the biggest pieces of news to come along in years happened this week with the death of Osama Bin Laden. One of the more interesting aspects of this topic is the varying stances that many people have taken. While many people are very excited about the fact that this…

Lesson One – Day of The Shave Five weeks of fundraising has finally brought us to our finale…the day of the shave. Today my second period and sixth period students will be shaving my head as a reward for their efforts in raising money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Second period will get…

Lesson One – Media Coverage Yesterday I was contacted by our front office and told that a reporting from KNWA (local news station) wanted to speak to me about our current fundraiser. Right now we have 7 days left in our fundraiser and have raised $1,140 so far. When I called the news station I…

Lesson One – Standardized Testing Today is the last day of 8th grade benchmark testing! For the entire week our students have been taking test in the subjects of math, reading, writing, and language. I approach the week of testing with the same enthusiasm that the majority of our students do…it’s not a fun week…

Lesson One – Full Head of Steam This week marks our second week of fundraising for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and after two weeks here is how our leader board looks in our class competition… History 6 – $300 Cross Country – $155 History 5 – $50 History 2 – $50 There is…

Lesson One – April Fools With today being April Fools Day, it was bound to happen…the car in the picture above belongs to our very own Coach Bauer. Her basketball students decided it would be a great idea to cover all the clear components of her car with post-it notes. I thought this was a…

Lesson One – Spring Break Nothing says “I had an awesome spring break” like a cheesy airbursh shirt. Today will be our last day at school before we are out for a full week for spring break. Many of our students have made plans to do fun and exciting things, I on the other hand…

Lesson One – Pay Your Lunch Bill I think they mean business. In the 3 years that I’ve worked in education, I have eaten in the cafeteria probably less then 20 times. Not that I have anything against the food or the people that work in the cafeteria, but I enjoy eating my usual lunch…