Four Day Retreat
A post elsewhere by zullingerc got me to do some arithmetic. Over the next four days, I’ll be on the clock and will work 59-hours.
It’s good work; it’s important; it’s meaningful; and it’s work that I have a talent for. But it’s important for me to …
First Online Unit Test in Canvas
Today marked a first for my AP Psych students/: an all-online Unit test using Canvas, our new learning management system. I was extremely nervous before the test began! There were several things that could have gone wrong; to name just a few that I …
Leading the processional for the first Friday Morning Liturgy on the 2014-2015 academic year, and serving as Eucharistic Minister.
The first day of school, Room 314, 2014–2015 academic year.
For the past three years, we have begun the AP Psych year the same way we end it: in dialogue and …
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Time-lapse video of a lecture on experimental design, using the theory that sugary drinks improve students’ school performance — and bad methodologies that students in …
I was in the Faculty Workroom and noticed that one of the English teachers had this book, and I remembered reading it as a kid. It turns out this is Dad’s …
There’s a map for that.
Dang… I had this map hanging in my classroom for eight years…
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…work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
— <p>Mark Twain, quoted by Dan Ariely, <a href=“ …
Segregation is not only inconvenient—that isn’t what makes it wrong. Segregation is not only sociologically untenable—that isn’t what makes it wrong. Segregation is not only politically and economically unsound—that is not what makes it wrong. …
Third Annual Psych One conference
I’ve been to enough conferences over the past 16-years that I’ve lost count. Of those, the Psych One conference hosted by Stanford’s Psychology department is hands-down the best.
.@ReganARGurung demonstrating the use of the dating game to engage an …
Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.
— <p><a href=“http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=1">David G Myers</a> at the <a href=“ …
When Psychology teachers go on pilgrimage.
When I teach my students about this, I have two main points. One: the methodology was terrible. And, two: the …
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; … any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. …
2014 AP Psychology Exam Results
The results from this past year’s AP Psychology Exam are in now, and I’m relatively pleased with the results. I’m particularly glad that so many students passed the exam.
Looking at the four that did not, I feel bad about not pushing them more — but …
It’s always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don’t really know what the truth is. I don’t suppose anybody will ever …
Sometimes, the only way to discover who you are or what life you should lead is to do less PLANNING and more LIVING — to burst the double bubble of comfort and convention and just DO stuff.
— <p>Daniel Pink, <a …
2013–14 Performance Review
Shared below is the write-up from my supervisor as Educational Technologist, the Assistant Principal of Academics. I will reserve my reflections for a following post, allowing her remarks to stand on their own for a moment.
2013–2014 Administrative Evaluations
In my role as Educational Technologist I am part-time Administration, and as such am subject to the Administrative Evaluations by faculty each year. I always have mixed emotions about receiving these. On the one hand, I hope that I am of service to …
Beginning recovery
I felt well-enough today after my bike-commute home to go for a run. After reviewing the notes of my much-beloved Nurse Practitioner at Kaiser, I set my watch for a 15-minute run.
My lungs started burning at the 10-minute mark, which was just …
“I like to learn by doing and failing and learning from the mistakes I make.”
— David McCandless.
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On "Poaching"
I recently read a post by Greg Brockman about cold recruiting, or initiating an interview for possible employment. Brockman describes the difficulties in the start-up world inherent in cold recruiting:
Cold outreach is inherently hard because the …
Defining Tenure
Apropos of nothing, the following description of tenure by Perry Zirkel, professor of education and law at Lehigh University, caught my eye:
Tenure is no more than a legal commitment (set by the state and negotiated union contracts) to procedural …