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Today is day two back at school.

The good news: the first two days of 2009 have brought two of the best days of class all year long! Low achieving students actually participating, working in groups, tackling difficult material (decimals), asking great questions, and the high achieving counterparts learning new and fresh math material that both challenged their academic skills as well as their leadership abilities, which they have thrived at.

The bad news: it took upwards of 5+ hours of prep time and 2+ hours of grading time to make it all happen, which is unfortunately, nowhere even close to being sustainable.

Arrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!