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To Be.: Sydney Grace 2/4/07
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Monday, February 05, 2007. 5 lbs 5 oz. 18 inches long. one beautiful representation of Providence and his favor. That black and white is my favorite! Congrats again y'all and hope all is well back at the house. I'll make it over to visit sometime this week. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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To Be.: 80 is the new 69.
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Saturday, January 20, 2007. 80 is the new 69. But that brings me to my point for this post. Testing. Starting with the class of '10. The students have to complete a graduation project as well as pass* 5 core EOC's: English 9, Algebra 1, Biology, Civics/Economics and U.S. History. So, why shouldn't I (we) change our class grading scales to reflect those of DPI. If a student can score an 80 on the EOC and yet it is still clas...
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To Be.: September 2006
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Thursday, September 07, 2006. Another score on the "getting them to think" front today. I used a lesson based on photographs. Students were broken up into groups of 4 (based on birthdays this time) and given a collection of 8 photographs. The pics were Gold Bullion. A Slave Auction, Boston Tea Party, Boston Massacre, Albany Plan of Union. And the Battle of Cowpens. Thanks Dr. Oscar Lansen. During the process a student asked if ...
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To Be.: Thoughts on Learning and Teaching
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Tuesday, January 16, 2007. Thoughts on Learning and Teaching. In reading for Current Trends and Issues in Education I stumbled on two opposing theories on curriculum. 1). The Paideia school which is supported by Mortimer Adler. Is complete school choice by students- meaning to go or not to go, where, how, how much, how fast, etc. How would the content of the class be delivered? Maybe at the beginning of the course I would offer...
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To Be.: Critical Condition.
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Monday, January 29, 2007. Well yesterday was the big 29 for me. It's crazy, because I do feel older. Perception is crazy. But I digress. I found this post. To be very interesting yesterday and I'll quote the source of inspiration below. I've heard Jonathan Martin. Preach once at Renovatus. Well, the people who are maddest at the world, right? How do you know a person is holy? 2- When I first saw the scripture used for reference...
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To Be.: April 2006
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Tuesday, April 25, 2006. Reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Chew on this quotation:. The name of Poet was almost forgotten; that of orator was usurped by the Sophists. A cloud of critics, of compilers, of commentators darkened the face of learning, and the decline of genius was soon followed by the corruption of taste. Links to this post. Sunday, April 23, 2006. Links to this post. Saturday, April 15, 2006. It's ...
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To Be.: December 2006
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Sunday, December 31, 2006. To new and renewed love,. To finding out what is really precious and letting go of things that are trivial and have no ultimate value,. To a greater understanding of one another and the realization that we are all in this thing called life together,. To wisdom, courage, and conviction for the world's leaders which will lead the world closer to peace,. To a hunger for Truth and a passion for compassion.
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To Be.: March 2006
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Wednesday, March 29, 2006. Using myspace to manage and further discussion outside of class has been very interesting. It took a few days before it took off- partly because I came with the thunder on the first topic post- but now discussion is quite beneficial. The students are able and willing to tell me how they learn best and what motivations and incentives respond to. (at, by, with from for). Links to this post. Ok, so this.
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To Be.: July 2006
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Monday, July 31, 2006. Yesterday, we went to an upstart. In Charlotte. I'd call it a church, but wouldn't that poison your mind with preconception from the start? Well, part of the teaching yesterday was about that very fact. The Church brings with it connotations- and most of the time those are not all that warm and fuzzy. So If those mentioned above are not the enemy, and the enemy is clearly defined. well then? The Book expl...
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To Be.: June 2006
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Reflections on my life's journey as a husband, father, educator, and a human. Thursday, June 29, 2006. I am going to try to blog my ideas fairly regularly from my grad course "Curriculum Foundations". The first entry is about the first philosophy that I've read called Perennialism:. Now, this entry is only based on a quick reading of the Perennial section in my Text Book. Please comment on the merits of said philosophy and drawbacks as well. Links to this post. Saturday, June 24, 2006. Sharp rang the bla...
