Im Baaaa-aaaack!

Hello World!

Well, yes, I have slacked terribly on the blogging; its been a tremendously busy past few weeks. The team taught unit with Mrs. Coursen went tremendously well. Students made connections between the material in both our classes and spent several days discussing how to solve poverty in our community. Not only did this benefit them in terms of higher order thinking skills, it also opened students eyes to the fact that poverty is a large problem in our area. Students tend not to recognize that we HAVE homeless students, we HAVE students whose families aren't able to put food on the table, we NEED to recognize the diversity in our school and work to make sure everyone succeeds.

They say every journey begins with a single step. When people talk about this cliche they tend to focus on taking on challenges a piece at a time. While this is a worthwhile statement, I think its imperative that we note that no journey(barring the shortest journey ever) has been completed in a single step. Classes in the first quarter went well but we have a LONG way to go together. The first quarter is just that, a quarter. No sport has ever been won in the first quarter and no challenge has over been overcome just by starting a solution. We need to keep it up. As the year goes on the level of difficulty will increase, the skills we have worked on will be applied to more complex solutions and the knowledge we have gained will be applied to everything else we study. It is necessary that we approach these coming challenge with the same vigor we have shown thus far. I believe we can and will do it.