intrapreneur \in-truh-pruh-NUR\, noun:

An employee of a large corporation who is given freedom and financial support to create new products, services, systems, etc., and does not have to follow the corporation's usual routines or protocols.

book review: marva collins way

Marva Collins and her school experienced a lot of attention for their methods about 20 years ago. Her philosophy is rooted in high expectations and challenging material for students. She talks about the fact that a good teacher never sits down, never assigns homework that isn't differentiated and meaningful, never makes material less difficult. As a kindergarten teacher, I appreciated her emphasis on phonics. She taught her children skills -- not to rote memorize. She is forever asking children to explain their thinking.

"I am not going to leave you along to become workbook idiots. You are not going to spend your time in here pasting and coloring and circling pictures. We're going to do some thinking in here."

Overall, I think that this book is an excellent read. It definitely got me excited for this school year and all of the growth that I can make with my children.

The Public Schools Austin Students Deserve

In fact, Board of Education member Mahaila Hines recently went as far to suggest our students don’t need libraries and evoked the imagery of “one-room school houses,” saying in those post-Reconstruction facilities we all were “educated just fine.”

-- Brandon Johnson

end to end

The Beginning

Day 1

Day 148

The end.

my first baby afghan

Is being put to good use! And of course, anything looks better with baby L on it. 

physical upkeep, revisited

This.

a day off from diversity

Let's reclaim them. Let's share them. Let's start over. Let's have T-shirts and bumper stickers and postcards and hip-hop music, television and radio commercials, ads everywhere and billboards, and all manner of printed material that tells the world about feminism. We can share the simple yet powerful message that feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression.


-- bell hooks