The World According to Leslie

Last night, we had Meet the Teacher/Curriculum Night.  It went really well.  I got to see 8-9 parents. Now, the kids who came last night know that the project is no longer due next week.  I am giving them through Spring Break to do it. The rest of the kids will have the joy of finding this out next week.  (I'm not mean.  I just need some of them to actually work on the project and think that it is still due next week.)  Today, we are working on reading Tears of a Tiger. If you haven't read it, you should.

I can speak in front of my teenage students for hours.  We have fun. We learn.  We do what we have to do.    When it comes to speaking to their parents, for even 8 minutes in a group, I get sweaty, nervous, sickish!    Tonight at my school, we are doing Curriculum Night.  That means that the parents get to walk their students’ schedules.  Each “class” will be 8 minutes long. They will have 5 minutes to get from “class” to “class”.  This is a time for me to let the parents know what is going on in class, what their angels are up to, and what we will be doing after Spring Break in a couple of weeks.  This is NOT a time for Parent-Teacher Conferences.  (The good thing is that if a parent wants a conference, my school does it a little differently that any other I have seen.  The parent has to set it up with a guidance counselor.  The counselor and the student’s other teachers are all in there together with an administr...