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Women

This skirt makes me feel womanly – like I’m finally dressing for my age, which thankfully has not started with a 1 or a 2 for a little while. It feels good to be mature sometimes and out of colored...

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Peas and Hearts

Intensive week ended, and it’s bittersweet. Of the all the kids we taught to blog, two have been keeping up with it into the next week post-intensive. Yay Celeste and Cathy! The school year is...

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the Little Things

Describe a little thing — one of the things you love that defines your world but is often overlooked. I’ve assigned this Daily Prompt to my blogging students today, so obvi, I needed to write it...

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Teens These Days

This week, my friend Genny and I started a blogging intensive. It started out a bit rough, with heaps of bitching and moaning reluctant energy such as “I wanted the camping intensive” and “this is...

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Hi Kids, it’s me

Today marks the day my online teacher life has crashed into my real teacher life That’s right, I’ve gone public. My students have been all over this blog today, looking at photos and probably not...

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the Nerd Prom

There’s no great way to start writing this post without giving a huge shout out and thank you to my bro-in-law for being my friend in a high place. Thanks, Dave (with my sister, below) for bringing...

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Personal

One thing I’ve learned in the past 4 years of teaching (which is not very long) is that you can’t take much personally. It was a hard lesson to learn in my first year (when one of my students stole...

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sad face

Picked this sad face up last weekend. This pouch turns frowns upside down, as does one of my top five favorite bands of all time. If you haven’t yet, and you were/are a fan of Jawbreaker, check out...

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Some Random Tuesday

These are from last week, when we were all stressed over our School Quality review. It also happened to be one of the first beautiful spring days of 2013. Of course, now that the SQR is over and we...

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here and there

It’s been a week or so since I’ve been here. My school just finished with our “SQR” – School Quality Review, where we have to prove that we are teaching. That is, teaching kids the way they want us...

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Lax

It’s the first day back from spring break, so I woke up this morning feeling like I needed to take another week off to relax. Unfortunately (and fortunately), that’s not an option – so second best...

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Stay-cation

Sadly, my spring break is coming to an end. It’s been a sweet week and a half. I took a trip to visit Jojo, my good friend Aimee came out to visit, and B and I enjoyed a day-long stay-cation. He...

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to wed

B and I were lucky enough to attend a wedding of new friends Mandi and Keith at the Green Building the other night in Brooklyn. It was gorgeous, fun and all around a fantastic time. What a way to...

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Vintage, Take two

So what’s the difference between ‘vintage’ and ‘thrift’? Can someone do a venn diagram comparison? Cuz IDK. I picked this dress up the last time I went thrifting (is that even a word?) along with...

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Progress

Today was progress report day. I gave each and every student a print out showing learning targets and their progress towards meeting them (aka did you do your assignments). It was a huge hubbub and...

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JoJo Rei love

I took a quick jaunt down to DC this weekend to meet my new niece Josephine (JoJo) Rei. She is just 3 weeks old right now and pretty much a feeding – pooping – sleeping machine, albeit a cute one...

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Thinking aloud – the teacher outfit

Thinking-aloud: a strategy used by teachers to teach reading comprehension or problem solving. I’ve never tried the “think-aloud” strategy in my class. I saw a teacher model it once and it felt...

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throwback, kinda

This dress hasn’t been worn since this post, last year, and my has time flown by. It’s still winter around here, so tights alone were not enough. Thus the socks over – just enough added warmth, and...

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Orange you glad?

I was happy to be back in SF last week, but I’m also happy to be home. It was a week filled with friends and also included a three day snowboarding side trip in Tahoe (the kids picked up on the...

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wise words

I’m back in SF for a short while, sorting through 30 years of memory boxes in my old bedroom. This is taking forever since each item takes me down a different memory lane. I’ve come across more...

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Data

The other day, David Brooks of the New York Times published a short piece, The Philosophy of Data, on the current prevailing mania for “data-ism”. This op-ed strikes a chord with me, as this...

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xin nian kuai le!

Happy Lunar New Year! I have fond memories of celebrating Chinese new year as a kid, great food, firecracker papers turning the streets of Chinatown red and lion dances everywhere (along with heaps...

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school marm

I’m not normally a fan of vintage shopping. I’m not that “vintage is character” type of person, I’m more of a modern lines and stark colors type. A couple weekends ago, I found myself with nothing...

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Nerdy Stress

Today was one of those extra anxiety ridden stressful days, the type that make you feel like you just ran a mental marathon. I had visitors in my class today – 7 adult visitors. These visitors were...

Feb 6, 2013 Like

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weekend

Is there a better day than today for some SF love? I don’t normally watch/care about football. But today I’m rooting for the team from my hometown, the San Francisco 49ers. That is, until they...

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double down

It’s a double down week. This is my typical clothing strategy…wear the same thing all week with a dress or two in between to break it up. It cuts down on laundry, something I actually have to be...

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frenchie french

Brooklyn is having a warm couple of days – it’s practically a winter heat wave at 55˚F! This ‘warm’ weather comes right on the heels of about an inch of snow just 2 days ago. I’m just happy to have...

Jan 30, 2013 Like

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new addition/new edition

No news here, just some new additions: New hair – free, through the Model Project at Bumble and Bumble University. I don’t know when I started to get so cheap about my hair. In my early 20′s I used...

Jan 27, 2013 Like

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tickle my fancy

Things that have been doing it for me lately, things that tickle that little happy place in my brain/heart. 1. Safari animal heads to hold my necklaces. 2. My newest addition from Retro Whale. West...

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Women

Peas and Hearts

the Little Things

Teens These Days

Hi Kids, it’s me

the Nerd Prom

Personal

sad face

Some Random Tuesday

here and there

Lax

Stay-cation

to wed

Vintage, Take two

Progress

JoJo Rei love

Thinking aloud – the teacher outfit

throwback, kinda

Orange you glad?

wise words

Data

xin nian kuai le!

school marm

Nerdy Stress

weekend

double down

frenchie french

new addition/new edition

tickle my fancy

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