April 2012
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Music educators!
I posted this on my Facebook earlier…
Hey, general music education people! What type of session topic should I look into presenting at the next state convention? What need do you have in your classroom that you wish there was a session on? Classroom management? Curriculum? Ideas and props? Incorporating children’s literature? (I have some ideas kicking around already… But I...
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A Few Truths: Pre-Spring Break Edition
The following was true all week (which happens to be the week before Spring Break in my school district):
- If a student is going to be leaving school a day early to go to Florida/Jamaica/(insert name of Anywhere Else), that student is going to make sure they tell you where they’re going at least four times during the thirty-minute class.
- The same student is also going to get some dirty...
Anonymous asked: Will Cody ask me to move in with him?
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I lucked out. Look what's coming to my house! →
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This is what I know...
My 6-year old son’s favorite song right now is Two Door Cinema Club’s “What You Know.” After stretches of time with him requesting Foster the People, Fitz and the Tantrums, and Muse (all fine bands, don’t get me wrong!), I am glad he’s on to some TDCC. He also is partial to the re-mix of “Undercover Martyn” that’s on the iTunes version of...
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Professional dilemma...
… Not really. ;-)
I have a “floating planning day” tomorrow, which means I will still be in my classroom/on site all day (while the students are around) but I am not teaching. I have a guest teacher (haha, I misspelled “teacher” momentarily and autocorrect fixed it to “watcher.” “Guest watcher.” Awesome.) who will be teaching my classes...
Watchcalwong:
Guess it’s ok to post this now after Wondercon. Me, Andres, Maddie and Toby right before a RS pitch earlier this year. For reference normal storyboards are supposed to be 5 foamboards long.
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whew.
At my choir/percussion concert tonight, the kids managed to bring their A games. We did not have a good dress rehearsal during the day, and I suppose the adage is true (a bad dress rehearsal usually guarantees a good performance)… But there was definite worry in my heart about tonight. We hadn’t really gotten through the whole repertoire with all of the parts together. We simply ran...
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Worth it? Heck, yes.
I am still awake.
Tomorrow is going to be HARD…. After teaching ten classes tomorrow, I have to be on my A game for tomorrow night’s concert with my choir and percussion kids (91 elementary schoolers? Yeeeeeauhhhhhhh!) and the middle school kids. I’m essentially going to have to be responsible for thirteen straight hours.
So why am I up? Great weekend. Summery weekend,...
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I told myself I wouldn't cry.
Meh. But I did.
I cried in front of a class today. Not because of anything THEY did, but because of all of the overwhelming things that are going on in my life right now that I cannot control… In my twelve years of teaching, I have never done that before, because I always wanted to maintain that separation between ME and THEM. I can share my feelings with my students, but only to an...
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This is the entrance song of the week in my...
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THIS. IS. WHY.
Had a former student recognize me in a store today. Whenever I go shopping, I try not to go in my district because, well, I don’t really want that noise. ;-) (Come on, you know YOU would peek into the cart, right? I totally would.) So today, I stayed in the town that I live in instead of driving 25 miles south to the stores around my school. Thought I’d be relatively anonymous.
This...
