“Son, Adler, now, there are many good things in the world, and many bad things, too. People do many good things, and many bad things, too. You must be careful, though, you must think about your actions because people don’t remember you for good things, if the bad thing you did...
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My old school gave these presentations to sixth graders, but I stopped attending it after the fifth grade due to a cross-country move my parents made that summer for a new job. The new school my family enrolled me in only taught it to fifth graders, so little Lydia wasn’t eligible ...
My first published work, appearing the following year in the Shanghai American School newspaper, read: Pat, pat, pat, There is the rat, Where is the cat, Pat, pat, pat. Beside it was an apology from our teacher: "The second graders' work is not up to our usual standards this week...
It took well over a year for both Kacie and her son to completely recover from the injuries they sustained in the crash, but she says it could've been a lot worse had they not gotten help when they did. She later wrote a letter to Tim Cook, thanking him for the...
In fact, Xingfu’s principal was so eager to pilot the program that he dramatically increased English hours for all students and brought in three Teach For China Fellows to co-teach all third and fourth graders in the school. At Teach For China’s recommendation, that also adopted an ...
Best results in 11 years at a national table tennis competition A table tennis club had to reduce their training after the 2011 earthquake. After adopting Future Mapping, they ranked 7th at the national championship for third and fourth graders. This was the best result for the club in eleven...
children participate in their classes’ Google meetings last week. They’re really pretty sweet to witness, until they’re heartbreaking. Kindergarteners are tiny and adorable and attend while holding stuffed animals. You could die from the cuteness. Second-graders are so happy to see each ...
And these services only target fourth graders who did not pass what were, until late last summer, the reading requirements for promotion from the third to the fourth grade. I wrote about Gov. Mike DeWine’s deeply misguided decision to promote last year’s third graders who did qualify, ...
So what I love about teaching is, uh, I worked for many years with third graders and now we work with fourth graders. It really is fun because you get to bring so many different subjects to kids and show them the possibilities of everything. And it's fun to look at your class and...