Lessons Learned

Lesson One – 100 Miles and Running Our off season t-shirt that celebrates our 100th mile of training for the year. While our cross country season is now officially over, we still have a lot of work to do. We will now be moving into our winter off season program where we will still focus…

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Lesson One – Last Ditch Effort Does Spam count as a performance enhancing substance? With the 2010 edition of the Woodland Flex-Off mercifully coming to an end, it’s time to get in those last minute votes before the contest ends. Students, don’t forget to bring your money to vote on your favorite faculty flex. As…

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Lesson One – Chevy Does Not Ride Dragons Pictured above is a young man named Char’Von…better known as Chevy for short. Chevy is a student that was in my world history class, but earlier this week I was informed by him that he was transferring schools. While Chevy will admit himself that he can be…

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Lección Uno – FHS Homecoming This evening Fayetteville High School have their annual homecoming game vs. Forth Smith Northside. For us here at Woodland that means we will be showing our support for the high school team by decking the school out in purple. Students and teachers today have dawned their purple gear to show…

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Lesson One – Going the Distance This week our cross country team competed at the Wildcat Invitational held in Bentonville, Arkansas. At this meet we were able to walk away with our first trophy of the year, our Jr. High boys (7th and 8th grade) received 3rd place in their division…this is excellent for us…

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Lesson One – Mustache For Mallett I hear there is a football game in Fayetteville this weekend…As of right now it is very hard for everyone in Arkansas to curb their enthusiasm knowing that the #1 college football team America (Alabama) is coming to town this weekend. Everyone has geeking the Razorback game this weekend…and…

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Lesson One – US Constitution Day Sound familiar? On this day 223 years ago, the United States Constitution was signed by 39 brave men or changed the course of history. Every year on September 17th, schools across the nation take part in Constitution Day. This is a day where we continue on the legacy left…

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Lesson One – Remembering 9/11 This weekend marks the 9 year anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. Like many other classrooms across America we will be spending a portion of class today to discuss the events of that day in September. This will be my 3rd year…

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Lesson One – JDRF Walk for a Cure My eldest niece, Avery. If you are a regular to our class blog, by now I’m sure that you are aware that I’m a sucker for a good fundraiser. In addition to supporting the Susan Komen Foundation, I also support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation…the reason why,…

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Lesson One – Lessons Learned in Great American Schooling Nothing says America quite like The Duke… Each Friday in my class is a mini holiday…on Fridays we take the time to celebrate the week that was by listening to a little bit of Arcade Fire and doing the lessons learned of the week. Lessons learned…

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