Yes, I know it's been more than 365 days--which is confounding because I've had at least 565 days worth of things to say. Really. Moving on....
So I have a vague recollection of a movie scene in which a family at a dinner table plays a game called high-low, which requires each person to relate a high and low point of their day. I believe Bruce Willis was a family member, but that's nether here nor there. Neither is the fact that I STILL wish I'd incorporated the idea from this movie I don't recall (save this scene) into dinner time at my house.
But I digress.
High--Sitting in a classroom with two administrators, two consultants and six members of my department (math) to discuss how to encourage certain habits of mind in our students so they leave our high school with transferable problem solving skills. The conversation was fruitful, dynamic and sure to be the basis of some progressive shifts in our instruction.
Low--Finding out from a former co-worker that students I had last year have expanded the number of ways they earn suspensions, and long-term ones at that.
High--The news he delivered was further confirmation that my decision to leave that school was well-founded. As a matter of fact, one of the many signs was department meetings that were what a fellow wordster once described (of another scenario entirely) as "a thin veil of civility pulled taut over a mountain of anxiety [or angst, or hostility]."
If I were to average those out, I'd be better than medium. Not bad.
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