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The Role of a Principal
(You probably won’t find these in a job description, though you should!) – Hand-holder – Zipper-fixer – Tear-wiper – Peace-maker – Pants-buttoner – Ball-retriever – Nose-wiper – First-aider – Firm-talker – Cheer-leader – Toy-mender – Toy-confiscator – Mouth-wiper – Rule-implementer – Ice-provider – Argument-settler – Wrapper-opener – Photo-taker – Hallway-monitor – Coat-zipper – Skip-rope-holder – […]
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Kids say the darndest things
A light look at some actual Grade 4 & 5 test questions and responses at my wife’s school: ____________________________________________________________ How do you think the Wright brothers felt after the first flight. Why? Good. They did something good for once. Do you think jet airplanes have changed our lives for the better? Why? No. Pollution, hello? […]
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Presentation Week
I have not used PowerPoint very many times in my life. However, I have sat through, and sometimes suffered through, many as part of an audience. So I felt a little intimidated when Nicoletta, one of my Vice Principals in my new school, asked me to create a PowerPoint presentation to introduce the new Graduation […]
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Licensed To Pill: We live in an over-prescribed (and over-labelled) society.
Licensed To Pill Comedy or social commentary? – – – – New voices: #3 of 7, this blog is probably better read than mine, but again I think it is invaluable for educators to read: The Genius in All of Us by David Shenk. In a recent post, Labels and Limits, David quotes a Washington […]
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Pizzas and Paperclips
I am combining two short posts here: —————————————– Ordering a pizza in in the near future. Turn your speakers on for this one… a little dark humour about living in a wired world. Ordering from Pizza Palace. Originally posted April 6th, 2006 —————————————– One Red Paperclip We live in a wired world where a man […]
