Taylor the Teacher

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Ok, so I’m such a young blogger that I’m way too excited about my six month anniversary. ~like couples who celebrate odd anniversaries because they’ve not been around long enough to have a real one. i wonder about people […]

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I fell in love with these dolls, but I don’t know what they’re called or where to get them. Can someone help?
 
 

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My laptop is toast. The battery went dead, and now it says, “Operating System not found.” Scary.
The new battery will arrive today. I hope that does it. If I lost all my data, my eyeballs will fill up with blood and shoot straight out of my head.
I’ve got several posts written in my spiral notebook, […]

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Today we had to fill out a mandatory ~every damn thing is mandatory, and they never fail to say this, with ALL CAPS. apparently caps work where respect and common sense don’t~ school climate survey for the state that goes on our school report card.
How can I describe the joy?
Except I know that no […]

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Kate Olson tagged me with Jeff Pulver’s Bucket List meme longer ago than I want to admit. She asked me to list goals I have set for myself in 2008. As crazy as my life is, I’m just thinking about the next few months. I’m sure doing a list like that would help me. But […]

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Why is it so hard to answer memes? Before I was ever tagged with a meme, I was wishing I would be. Now, I’ve been tagged like five times, and every time I sit down to write them something else comes out.
This isn’t something I try to do. I want to write those meme […]

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The better question is whether a lot of kids pop off to me. Someone pops off to me every day some weeks. But it’s always the same few kids. And in my experience, I’ve always had more of these kids in the first semester than in the second. Most of the time I think this […]

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Everyone, get this:
My husband works out of town, and the last time he showed up at the La Quinta Inn in Franklin, TN a couple of days before the boss. The boss asked him to give the hotel our card to hold the room (paid us 50 bucks for the trouble.) Then boss man gave […]

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Nearly every day at least one person arrives at my blog via the search engine terms “teaching with love and logic.” Quite rightly. Every teacher should buy “Teaching With Love and Logic” by Jim Fay and David Funk, and keep it handy. Other than a couple of reading strategies books that are essentially reference books and […]

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I’m looking for teaching jobs elsewhere, since my effort to transfer within the district has been blocked. ~more on this later this week… stay tuned!~ But I’m beginning to wonder if one summer is enough to recover from this.
I might be permanently broken.
This accident actually happened in November, but I have been putting clothes over […]

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