I have high hopes and every good intention of keeping this blog more up-to-date over this summer. Regular school is out. My kids and I all survived the staggering, stagnant heat AND the pressure of 4th quarter grades and final exams. They may not believe it, but I'm going to miss them....even most of the ones who were great pains in my neck all semester long. With only an tiny handful of exceptions, they were good kids, great even, but just not good (or even satisfactory) students.
Over the summer, I've got summer reading for next year's gig, a ton of stuff I want to do selfishly just for me, and a six+ week teaching gig with the summer classes of a college prep program run by a former professor/supervisor/mentor. I'm super-excited. Because these classes are supplements to their high school course of study, the curriculum is much more flexible, much more contemporary and experimental. I'm working with two great, much more experienced English teachers - one in the literature courses and one in the "rising sophomores" writing course - which will be an amazing resource, but I'm also going to get to know a whole different kind of student, more motivated, more committed, while still caught in the ambiguous, murky territory of being a high school kid.
So hopefully, I'll be chronicling and reflecting on all of that here. Bear with me. We're on a whole new ride.
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