Posted by Chip on May 18, 2011
A few days ago I was with a friend at her mother’s apartment when she drew her mom’s attention out the window to a hummingbird that had alighted on the tray of one of those specially-designed, globe-shaped feeders filled with sugar water.
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Posted by Chip on May 13, 2009
Paradox—a statement or situation that seems to be contradictory,
but in fact is or may be true.
The end of each school year presents itself to teachers, students, and parents in endless contradictions, stark and glorious contrasts of seeming absurdity and meaning-filled traditions and rites of passage.
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Posted by Chip on April 28, 2009
Pretty much no matter where you live or teach or where your children go to school, this time of year, and in some cases, this particular week, marks the beginning of many annual rituals and transitions full of difficult dilemmas and wonderful paradoxes.
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Posted by Chip on July 2, 2008
The children have gone home and the classrooms are empty. Many teachers have packed their rooms and are moving to new classrooms or schools this summer. In our district there are schools closing and consolidating. In other districts around the country there will be more new principals and new teachers in place when children return.
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Posted by Chip on June 23, 2008
Every school has its wonderful traditions and ceremonies in the last days of school, with children moving to new grades, receiving awards and recognitions, reading essays remembering their years in elementary school, singing favorite songs, and finding other unique ways to say goodbye to each other and the institution and community that has nurtured them.
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Posted by Chip on June 19, 2008
Every school has favorite songs; many schools have a song of their own. At our school, children would probably tell you we have two school songs. One is our own verse of This Land is Your Land, the American anthem written by Woody Guthrie and so beloved by school children everywhere, thanks to Pete Seeger [...]
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Posted by Chip on June 9, 2008
State testing, field days, field trips, final class projects and reports, final exhibits, final report cards, retirement parties, step-up days, graduations, and many good-byes.
It’s all so easy to forget in the middle of each busy school year and so amazingly sudden and bittersweet in its familiarity—that all-at-once moment some early June morning when we [...]
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Posted by Chip on May 20, 2008
Sean has had a pretty successful year, all things considered, in this fourth grade inclusion classroom. From a September filled with “I won’t do its,” to an October of “You can’t make me’s,” he settled into a pattern of increasingly productive math and reading periods, the ability to work well during partner reading and to [...]
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