I'm sorry I've neglected you for so long. It's been a busy an challenging couple of months (more on that another time, perhaps).
I have some plans to get you back up and running and to get me back up and running as a blogger.
First things first, clearly a blog challenge kept me on track. I will be putting together a blog challenge of my own sometime in the new year.
In the meantime, I'm enjoying #WeirdEd chats, hosted by Doug Robertson, the author of "He's the Weird Teacher". I love the online community he's built and the opportunities to be weird, creative and innovative during his chats.
I've started reading "He's the Weird Teacher" and am pretty sure that Doug actually lives inside my head. There are so many things he writes that match my own brain perfectly. However, hard as I try, I can't have a conversation with him (or anyone) inside my head.
In a twitter conversation last night, several of Doug's Weird disciples started talking about putting together a book club. As always, I had to get things rolling and started a Google Doc for people to sign up and collaborate. Melissa Eddington started a Voxer group and I've started Vox-ing (is that a verb?) with her about how to make the Book Club work.
Remember how I started this letter to you, dear blog, by saying that I needed a new challenge? I've come up with a simple one. Doug's book consists of 35 chapters. As you may know, most months have about 30 or 31 days, those numbers are similar, though not identical. If I were to blog every day for a month, using each chapter as a prompt, I'd blog my way through the book in just over a month. So as not to set myself up for too much disappointment in myself, I will be OK if I blog every two days or so and finish my self imposed Weird Challenge by the end of February.
#ComCon, #WeirdEd, #L2L4L, feel free to join me in this challenge. Here's the inspiration for what I'll be blogging about:
1. Rockstar
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2. Personal Responsibility
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3. Teaching is Performance
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4. Polar Express
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5. Distractions
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6. Student Teachers
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7. Philosophy on Discipline
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8. When the Students Are Hard, You’re Doing Your Job
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9. Dressing Up
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10. How You Talk When You Talk About Your Students
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11. The Trunchbull and *Deep Breath* Parents
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12. Bodily Functions
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13. Indoor Recess is Evil
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14. The “E” Word
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15. Bullying
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16. Letters to Prison
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17. Spelling Tests
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18. My First Staff Meeting
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19. What I Want Out of an Administrator
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20. Learn from Fear/Inspire With Love
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21. Getting a Tie and Losing My Music
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22. Strange Things I Do in My Classroom (OR Things I Think I Might Have Stolen)
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23. Special Guests
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24. Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
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25. Tetherball
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26. Sympathy for the Weird Kid
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27. Messing with Kindergarteners
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28. Suck It!
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29. There Are No Rules and Everyone Is Faking It
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30. Reading Above Their Level
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31. Substitutes
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32. Dinosaurs and Fields of Study
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33. Safe Schools
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34. The System
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35. Hello, Goodbye and Thank You
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Shauna
