The Invisible Library

iggymogo:

60 Students Suspended for Biking to School?!?

On the second to last day of school, 60 seniors from Kenowa Hills High School in Walker, Michigan, rode their bikes to school. It wasn’t an improvised things either, as they had police escort and did it safely, and even the mayor joined them (handing out donuts, which isn’t exactly health food, but nobody was forced to eat them). But their principal, out of some sort of “I’ll show you who’s boss” primal instinct, decided to reprimand them, calling the bike ride a “prank”, going as far as suspending them from a traditional year’s end celebration at that school.

read more at http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/60-students-suspended-biking-school.html

I’m confused. They were riding their bikes TO school and not THROUGH the school, right? Plus, with a police escort, they were probably following all the traffic laws (unlike that cyclist who blew through a red light this morning) and were safe.

This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve read today.

positivelypersistentteach:

Teachers spend a lot of their own money on classroom materials, and so I figure why not be paying other teachers for it rather than a publishing house.  I think this site not only sells lesson plans, but also printables and whatnot — which I think is a lot more ethical than whole lesson plans in the sense of what I need to write for my students.  But maybe that’s the by-the-rule-book type personality that I have.  I think it is weird that school districts are purchasing lesson plans, since writing them is part of a teacher’s job.  But the other resources could be very useful.  I know that I would be more likely to see ideas and try to recreate them on my own than purchase them, but I like doing that stuff. 

I didn’t know about whole lesson plans, but I have used some of the free materials to round out lesson plans that I’ve written. I will periodically go online to see if there is already a worksheet or capture sheet that will go along with what I want to teach. If there is, great, no need to reinvent the wheel. If I can’t find anything that I like, I just make my own. One of the commentors pretty much accused teachers of plagiarizing one another by using the TpT site, which is false because a.) the teachers are either paying or b.) have been given permission to download the materials. In my lesson plans, which I submit once a month, I note where I may have gotten the ideas or resources for my lesson plans and I will directly link to the creator’s website.

(Source: inothernews)

populationpensive:

We had a incredible number of teachers call in today last minute. This left our poor secretary to figuring out subs and such. The worst part is that apparently some of them were supposed to be on a field trip and called in sick.

I think when there are only 14 days of school left, and you are…

Okay, calling sick when you’re supposed to go on a field trip is kind of a dick move, especially if you aren’t really sick. However, I would give the others the benefit of the doubt, unless there’s a pattern of this behavior. I’m only saying this because something seems to be going around this year and I know that the incredibly mild winter and spring has made this the allergy season from hell.

leftyjenkins:

My library is all packed up. It took us three weeks and more than four hundred boxes, but we got it done. At first, it was actually fun. I breezed through inventory with a smile on my face, packed up 10,000+ books, and then … it stopped being fun.

It’s always like that, isn’t it? The worst part…

Ah, yes. This will be my first year doing the packing, though since my library probably isn’t going to get any funds to renovate, I may not have to pack up the books. I’ll just be skipping ahead to the cleaning-out-the-desk part.