Melissa Wantz: Notes from West Egg

One blog I’m following with much interest this week is at this one. It’s a blog being written by a group of 35 high school journalism teachers taking part in an ASNE fellowship in Arizona. I have it on my reader and am really enjoying the news coming out of the conference each day [...]

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I am so incredibly grateful to be living in the 21st century! I’m an information junkie through and through, and with a few keystrokes and mouse clicks it seems like I can find anything I want to find. This makes me as happy as the day I learned, at four years old, that I could [...]

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I will have to explain thoughtfully to my husband why I chose to spend six hours working in my classroom today, on this, the fourth day of summer vacation. Some teachers get it; others don’t. The staff parking lot at school had at least a half dozen teacher vehicles in it, so I’m not the [...]

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I find the transition to summer vacation to be a perilous time. My mood swings from elation at the idea of all these days off, followed by reflective regret over what I should have done better during the past ten months. I am exhausted, cranky and sort of lost as the pressure of a bell [...]

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