Ruth’s Ruckus2

I usually try to be more positive about division wide projects even if I don’t agree with the way they are carried off.  Unfortunately there is no way to put a positive spin on the what the teachers in my schools have had to endure with the gradebook this first nine weeks.  It’s been so [...]

My mother sends me cartoons via email from time to time.  I thought this was especially funny when I received it Friday. 
It looked like a good week in both buildings.  At Brighton most folks had their equipment up and running – I only had one SOS call.  The folks at Victory were all using their [...]

Several of you have made inquiries into the possibility of seeing the inauguration in your classrooms.  Many have also asked if streaming will be allowed for this one event.  Unfortunately, streaming news content will not be allowed for this historic event.  The reasons are two-fold:

Our internet connection (traveling through IRC) is fixed and will only [...]

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I’m at the Craft Hospital.  It’s the place they send burnt-out TRTs from Portsmouth.  I’m not quite sure what they do for TRTs in other school divisions, but in Portsmouth, we’ve had this arrangement for a while.  We usually get sent in groups, but in special circumstances they send us individually.  So now you know [...]

Ok.  So I’m at the Discovery Educator’s Network National Institute and this is the first day… So I thought this might be like the WHRO Tech Trek experience – I’ve done it before, so I thought I could do it.  It’s kind of a formula: professional development followed by project time and then presentations.  I’ve [...]

Ever wonder what a TRT does during the summer?  I mean, TRTs are responsible for staff development…there’s not a whole of teaching staff around during the summer, so what do TRTs do?  Well it depends on their contract.  Some school divisions hire TRTs on a 10 month contract – they are around when the teachers [...]