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Rules Kids Won’t Learn In School

April 21, 2011 – 12:08 am

Oh, I know, I know; this list is everywhere and you’ve all seen it a zillion times. Well, make that a zillion and one. For some reason, it just hit me in a good place today. == Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School Rule #1. Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average [...]

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Standardization, Administration, & Other Bollocky Things

April 9, 2011 – 3:01 pm

Mamacita says:  Beethoven and Rodin would never make it in an American public school these days. Neither would Lincoln, or Clara Barton, or Thomas Jefferson. Nor Einstein. Or Edison. Administrators have forgotten that ultimately, our culture will be judged on the arts; that’s how we learn about ancient cultures. We did not find any remnants [...]

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Center of the Universe, You Say? I Think Not.

February 24, 2011 – 9:48 pm

Mamacita says:  All my life I have loathed the expression, “Act your age.” Even as a child I wondered how a person could ‘act’ an age; the best I could ever do was to ‘be’ an age. “Act” always connoted phoniness to me. I totally agree with the little girl in this joke. How can [...]

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Things I Still Haven’t Done Yet

February 11, 2011 – 10:02 pm

Mamacita says: what’s the hurry, anyway? 1.  I have never used an ATM machine.  I have a feeling it would be the beginning of a bad personal habit. 2.  I still have never watched a single Survivor-type show.  Still not interested. 3.  Ditto for Oprah, and even less interested. 4.  The Christmas wreath is probably [...]

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The Value of Continual Learning

January 26, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  When it comes to education, I can be quite opinionated.  No, really.  I’ll debate with you about all things educational, and you might as well be prepared to back down at least a little bit because I probably won’t.  Not unless you’ve got a shiPload of experience to back yourself up. Families that [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Imagination

January 22, 2011 – 1:42 am

A lot of Saturdays have come and gone lately without Quotation Saturday.  How have we managed to cope, I ask you all. . . . Since I stand firmly with Albert Einstein’s “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” this Saturday’s theme is “imagination.” Take the word apart.  Do you see it?  IMAGE.  People with imagination [...]

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Omens, Witch-burning, and Fools

January 12, 2011 – 2:59 am

Mamacita says:  Second day of class, and we’re buried alive in snow, so much so that even the college canceled classes. I don’t believe in omens, but I can’t help thinking, “omen.” I did what I usually do on a snow day:  I slept.  That is because I am an exciting, energetic bundle of cool, [...]

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Did you learn anything interesting today?

January 3, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: This is five years old, but it’s still a good random sample of my day.  Remember, helping students make connections is my “thing,” but it helps when they have something to connect things to.  Sometimes I think a good combination of personalities can find connections among/between almost anything.  This is wonderful, by the [...]

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You must learn, young Padawan, but finals are now officially over

December 21, 2010 – 12:05 am

Fair warning:  there is “language” ahead. . . . Mamacita says: I gave finals to five classes last week. Most of my students last semester were awesome; I adore them. I already miss them.  They rocked.  All semester, they worked hard, had wonderful discussions, participated, helped each other, LISTENED, made suggestions. . . . the [...]

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This Teacher Loves GLEE, and Here’s Why

December 7, 2010 – 1:05 pm

Mamacita says:  Glee makes me want to sing. Glee even has the power to make me think I CAN sing. But that’s beside the point. When I watch Glee, I switch back and forth with my point of view.  Sometimes, I’m one of the students, and then I absorb the wonder of having a safe [...]

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