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Yesterday as I walked into school, I was greeted by a fellow teacher who asked me “Are you having the UCLA students in your room today?”. Darn it. I had totally forgotten about the fact that I had volunteered (seemingly months ago) to be an “observed teacher” for a cohort of UCLA education students who were spending yesterday and today observing Cochran Middle School.

Unfortunately, as I quickly reviewed my lesson plans for the day, I realized that my lesson for the two said days were, at most, innocuously boring. Writing decimals as fractions. Wahoo! In other words, warm-up, announcements, quick review, new lesson, practice, practice, practice. I guess the upside to all this is that it appears that a majority of students actually understood the lesson very well, but we’ll see on tomorrow’s quiz.

In the meantime, I find myself taking a large amount of time to work with a fellow teacher on putting together an effective means of communication with students and families about magnet schools! We have a web site (albeit with nothing on it, although I like the domain). www.hopechangechoices.org

Signing off!!!