Comments for Elbows, knees, dreams

Comment on teacher blog turns into teacher book by kiri8

kiri8 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:31:32 +0000

Yeah, wouldn’t that be nice?

Comment on teacher blog turns into teacher book by mccgood

mccgood — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:07:52 +0000

I loved the book! For a min there I thought you were telling us you were going to be published!

Comment on glad I’m not a first year teacher by kiri8

kiri8 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:05:42 +0000

Thank you, Mel. Always good to know I have you in my corner. )

Comment on I don’t like being caboose by mel koronelos

mel koronelos — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:31:09 +0000

My mind is with Plum. If every caboose veered off, there would be anarchy, chaos, ungovernability! What, no rules? But my heart is with Zucchini. May every caboose dream of making fresh tracks.

Comment on glad I’m not a first year teacher by mel koronelos

mel koronelos — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:01:10 +0000

You rock. A perfect mix of discipline and empathy, optimism and realism. Rock on!

Comment on backpacks by Beth

Beth — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:34:06 +0000

Ain’t that the truth!

Comment on backpacks by mccgood

mccgood — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:35:17 +0000

cheers!

Comment on backpacks by Em

Em — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:30:19 +0000

Amen.

Comment on backpacks by Claire

Claire — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:15:41 +0000

here here.

Comment on glad I’m not a first year teacher by kiri8

kiri8 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:45:11 +0000

Oh, honey, I don’t mean to be discouraging! First year teachers are wonderful, because they have so much passion, and so much idealism, and because they work so damn hard.

But you know, without me having to tell you, that it is going to be hard. You won’t have lesson plans you can pull out of your head. Kids (and sometimes their parents) are going to say utterly bizarre things to you…and you’ll be speechless, because you haven’t heard it before. Everything is going to be new, and you’re just going to have to get through it. And after a year or two, things will get easier, and you’ll find yourself in a situation that would have been really hard a year earlier, that now you can handle with aplomb, because you have experience. Good luck to you. You’re gonna knock their socks off.