The first nine weeks is over and sure signs of the holiday season have been spotted during the couple of weeks. Did you know that a teacher can tell how close Halloween is without looking at a calendar? They can feel the excitement build everyday until it is nearly a frenzy. It's true. The whole school hums. My first year, I panicked. I could feel a gradual loss of control to the candy induced mania. I racked my brain trying find a way to survive it. I think it came to me in a vision while...

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Oh yeah...I am aware of what an innocent search on the web can produce. I hold my breath and keep one eye closed whenever I click on the magnifying glass. So, I'm trying to set up blogging (kind of) and everything was going according to plan. Student had nicknames, laptops and I created a way they could make comments on our class webpage without having the password to the page. Yippie! I tried it out at home. It worked!!!! Do you here the breaks screeching? Yeah, totally blocked at school. No...
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