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Skriven 2007-01-20 18:09:23 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
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Ärende: Flat Stanley                                             [1]
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Hi Hap,

-> She keeping a short timer's calendar?

 hn> LOL nope, she's too busy doing her best to get this group as ready as
 hn> possible! Wednesday night we went to the School Board meeting as they
 hn> were honoring the 6 teachers in the district that passed the National
 hn> Board Certification process. It was a very nice ceremony and they gave
 hn> certified, as research has shown that the people who do it really have
 hn> a large impact on the students, school and even the district's level
 hn> of achievement.

So let's hope they seriously recognise her work and implement her
suggestions.

->  hn> gaps we filled em in ourselves. A childs first and most important
->  hn> educators are the parents...sadly most parents shirk that job to a
->  hn> great extent and the kids are the ones who suffer for it.
 hn> ->
-> Sad, but a lot of parents now don't know the basics themselves.  I was,
-> for the most part, a stay at home mom (worked part time a bit in
-> Germany) so I was able to keep up with the girls teachers.  Had some
-> high school teachers that we had to talk to, and then they didn't follow

 hn> You are so right about the parents not knowing much themselves...the
 hn> school Anne teaches in is a classic example of the district she
 hn> teaches in as
 hn> well....the gap between the demographics is huge, the kids seem to be
 hn> from either end of the extremes from a gated community in a
 hn> "McMansion" or from a trailer with cars on blocks in the front yard.
 hn> Several of the teachers refer to
 hn> this group that Anne's teaching now as "the year of cheap crack"
 hn> because they are so "slow" as an entire grade level. Sadly they may

What a demographic difference!  Rachel had the 2nd group of kids in GA;
the two years she taught in AZ, the kids were more like the first group.
Not all, but quite a signifigant difference.


 hn> not be far from the truth! We were lucky in Highschool, Amanda was in
 hn> the I B program and every teacher there had been highly screened and
 hn> only the very very VERY best were teaching in the program. I still am
 hn> friends with most of them and they are as a group of teachers the
 hn> finest I think I've ever met.

We don't have contact with any of the teachers our girls had in high
school.  Deborah has thought of looking up her main JROTC instructor &
letting him know what she's doing. (G)

-> don't have to resort to junk food.  Last night the youth did the prep,
-> serving and clean up of our Wed. night supper; it looked like they had
-> more in the kitchen than needed but if everybody had a job.......they
-> did a great job of spaghetti & meat sauce, salad and brownies.
 hn> ->
 hn> As good a start into easy to prepare dishes as you can
 hn> find...spaghetti is good, did they make the sauce from scratch or was
 hn> it "Ragu"?

I think it was from scratch; didn't taste like Ragu.

-> Then if she learns it well, it may become something a bit more
-> enjoyable.  Getting the learning part down so she can do the job well
-> may be hard but she'll appeciate it later.

 hn> Yes, it's a very complex computer program on statistical population
 hn> dynamics (I think it got that right) in an ecological community (or
 hn> food web) and since it has so many variables it's really a hard one to
 hn> keep grasp of ( I think!). Amanda's reputation as a hard and good


As a former sociology major/psycholgy minor, that one sounds
intriguing.But, I'd be looking at it from a people standpoint, not
marine life.


 hn> worker has spread, she's got three job offers going right now; (1) to
 hn> offer as well and so I looks like she's going to have a LOT of funding
 hn> choices for the rest of the year. She's trying to see if she can do
 hn> the TA'ing this next quarter, and the RA'ing the quarter after that,
 hn> and hold off on the teaching of the class till next year. Seems she in
 hn> great demand now that they know how good she is (proud daddy grin!).

She sounds like a daughter to be proud of.  I've got an elementary
school teacher working on her Master's for one daughter and a soldier,
with some college but not near a degree yet for the other.  Second one
never had high school chemistry but just scored 90 (out of 100) on a
chem based test for a military class she's taking. Couple of smart
cookies there.

-> ->  hn> Sounds like a good move!
 hn> ->
-> -> Very much so; still waiting to hear from the ortho doctor.  I've learned


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Ruth
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