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Category: teaching

sound the bell, school’s in sucka

A couple days ago I put a CD in Skylar’s 6-disc changer that hadn’t been played in at least seven years. Written on the CD’s face in once-blue-now-purple ink were the words “A Burned CD: aka D.O.’s Burned CD”… seems I was quite the jokester during my high school days. The album might have been [...]

the journey of job searching

I walked out my front door, shirt tucked in, pants a little too long and resumés in tow ready to show the local school district that I was undoubtedly the person they most wanted to fill their teacher vacancies. When I sat down in Skylar’s bucket seat and turned her key, a familiar and soothing [...]

all I need are minds for molding

As I endure this season of job searching (one of life’s evilest necessities) for a teaching position, a question of the teaching variety has come to my mind on multiple occasions that I thought I’d bring to the odfm table for discussion: What should I teach the public school, junior high population of [whoever hires [...]