Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2002
Tuesdays with Epiphany, posted at 4:46 p.m.
Epiphany in Baltimore has moved to epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com I've got these kids trained so well on the inner/outer circle Socratic Seminar format. I love them. The discussions, I mean. I sit there with my laptop, taking notes on everyone - how everyone is listening, how everyone is contributing, how everyone is taking notes. One glance in their direction is enough to get them on task if they are off.I turned in my grade forms. The essays I was grading weren't complete, but we get the grade printout forms back tomorrow, and I can make any changes I need to off of the estimates I made today. It's a pretty sneaky plan, but legal as far as I know. I plugged in numbers for the kids whose essays weren't done, and I doubt if anything will vacillate more than a point or so once the actual essay grade gets put in there tonight, sometime before or after 24 comes on.
I've made a new friend at work - the new 9th grade counselor. He's 29 but looks 22, and is new to the state. We had a fun time out last Friday night, and now he's hanging out a bit with our "group." He won this free Happy Hour on Thursday at Have a Nice Day Cafe, so we'll be heading over there after we leave school.
My roommate ad will be running again tomorrow in the City Paper. Ugh. I hate looking for roommates, I hate the thought of living with people I don't know, and I hate picking people to live with based on a phone conversation. Jesse moves out into his new house on Dec. 1, and there's no way in hell I can make it through Christmas without another roommate.