once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:19:25 -0500

[ASSIGNED: FIRST DAYS OF SECOND YEAR] Here I am again. Standing in front of a roomful of strangers. I'm in a new school where I once again have to find where things are, who knows what, who does what, and what matters. My schedule is ...

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it's not all bad, you know

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:45:03 -0500

[REQUIRED: FIRST-MONTH ADVICE TO FIRST YEARS] I'm sitting here recording and filing the student information sheets and rules/procedures contracts my students completed on the first day of school. The student info sheet includes questions...

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x, y, and me

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:24:41 -0500

Apparently, I'm making trendy personal and professional choices. New York Times: Geezers Doing Good I'm amazed, however, at the vitriol expressed in some of the comments on this Op-Ed piece. Saddened, too, at the prejudice shown by tho...

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chaos theory of teaching

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:42:08 -0500

[ASSIGNED: SUCCESS STORY] Why is it so much harder for me to write the success story blog than the failure story? I can think of small and large things I was successful with in my first year teaching: I can teach the hell out of v...

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have a little white whine (and an exercise in connotative language)

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:18:05 -0500

[ASSIGNED: FAILURE STORY] Are there individual students whom I feel I've failed? Ha-ell yeah! Isn't that what the "one child at a time" jingoism pretty much guarantees? GIve me 120-something students and then let help me feel good about "ma...

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the other update

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:57:57 -0500

It's been six weeks since my accident. Just over month since I came home from the hospital. In April, I left my house three times. Emily stayed for two weeks, then had to go home. I've been driving since May 1, when I also started outpatient phy...

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in which she writes of colonialism, caricature, and hyperbole

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:41:25 -0500

Thanks for the many thoughtful comments. Obviously, I do not want to get into what someone has politely called a shin-kicking contest, but I do think I should make a few points. Prologue: No one who commented on my post has ever been in my class...

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fasten your seatbelts ...

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:58:35 -0500

[REQUIRED BLOG: ADVICE TO FIRST-YEARS OR, WHY ARE THEY UNHAPPY RABBITS?] ... it's gonna be a bumpy year. You've read the other second-year blogs that tell you to make the most of the summer, enjoy your time now, make friends, build a network, a...

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horseplay ensued

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:52:45 -0500

It started -- as most near-disasters do -- innocently enough: A plan hatched a few weeks before for three friends and a newly acquired Expedition to head out of the flat Delta and into the north Mississippi hills on some family property to shoot ...

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hearing myself

nobody@vox.com(sabatier) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:09:15 -0500

It sort of started as a spur of the moment little thing. And now I'm pretty much addicted ... don't know how I'd get through a week without it. Nope, I'm not talking about huffing Sharpies. I'm talking about letting my students teach. I teach s...

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