Me after the song challenge:

Giving some love to the Master of Suspense in Film Class right now. It's only necessary this time of year.

Empty classroom+Halloween vibes=

If you haven’t interacted with any of our new teachers yet this year, check this video out for a quick glimpse!

Been a while since I've made a tweet, so I'll come back out of the gates with this reminder: Capitalize your name, for Pete's sake!

First episode back after the “pause.” Hit play and enjoy. There will be more. GK Student News February 2021 youtu.be/8j5cELe6n8o via YouTube

Victories.

Our boys basketball team won a tightly contested conference game to secure the second seed for the BNC tournament! A great win especially on senior night. #gkcogs

Correct.

If Coach Wilmarth played basketball....

Maybe I’m getting older and strangely less jaded towards the music industry, but I’d say these opening performances on the Grammys aren’t half bad.

A hawk was just majestically flying by my window. I thought I was transported into a Wes Anderson film for a second. youtu.be/DTNN2MEHtf8

Grades. Aren’t. Compensation. For. Work. If everyone understood that one tiny detail, our assessment system as a whole would be in such a better spot.

A lot of hand wringing about reading loss going on, but it was my experience that many of my students had stopped reading books years ago. This was a curriculum problem and a teaching problem long before the pandemic.

New episode alert! First of the year! Homecoming!! Enjoy!!! youtube.com/watch?v=szufsb…

“Essay” comes from the French word meaning “to try.” But that spirit of tentativeness is crushed when essays are graded and the point isn't to explore but to snag an A.

And this is why we tell students to just keep writing. Even if you feel like there isn’t anything there.

A6 As we come to this last question, I am reminded by Shelley’s caution on the standardization in schools: “Just as processed foods are not considered healthy, so, too, processed teaching materials should not be on our instructional menus.” #G2Great

I definitely forgot the login info for the trex Twitter account. But those were some wild days.