Top 10 Ways To Improvise Your Way to Being A Better Teacher General by Joel Wagner - June 24, 2013June 8, 20162 This summer I made the decision to go on a somewhat extensive tour of a few of the major cities in the Northeast United States. During the process, I reconnected with my friend Nelson, with whom I marched drumcorps 17 years ago. I haven't seen him in the intervening years and so it as been great to catch up with him the past few days. It turns out that he has spent the last few years doing comedy in and around the Chicago area. We went to The Second City Comedy Club last night and watched a completely improvised musical about a Golden Fleece. We have talked extensively at meals over the last few days as well. Some of our conversations
Might As Well Face It-I’m Addicted to Blogs! (and listservs and podcasts…) General by Head Monkey - July 23, 2008July 1, 20101 This is a guest post by Tracey, aka The Head Monkey at Middle School Monkeys www.mrsbowes.edublogs.org aka Trixie at TrashyTvTalk at www.trashytvtalk.blogspot.org My apologies to Robert Palmer for stealing his little ditty from the 80's, but it seemed so appropriate! (I refuse to dress like the zombies in the video, though.) Now that school is out and I have waaaay more free time, I really thought I would be a "good wife/mother" and dedicate myself to domestic responsibilities. Well, the jury is still out, but I'm pretty sure I lost the "Mother of the Year Award" already and Better Homes and Garden is not returning my calls for the 4 page spread. I hired a cleaning lady to do the spring cleaning I never did and my