Sometimes, I Hate What We've Turned Into
Mamacita says: December in an American public school classroom used to be so very, very special. No matter what kind of families lived in the area, and no matter what a child’s family did about...
View ArticleBack Off – Your Kids Don't Need An Adult Best Friend
Mamacita says: I can remember being really little, and I can remember my parents playing with me. (Those are my parents; aren’t they pretty?) They played with me whenever they could, but it wasn’t...
View ArticleWhat Do I Really Want To Do In My Classroom?
Mamacita says: Finally. Someone has finally asked me a question I’ve wished for years someone would ask. It’s a question that’s right up there with Ed McMahon asking if he could come inside and give...
View ArticleWherein I Mourn the Death of Common Sense, and Admit to my Fogeyness
Mamacita says: I hate to think I’m turning into a fogey, or, even worse, am already there, but it seems to me that people are getting more and more ignorant by the minute. It doesn’t seem as though...
View ArticleI Worry About the Future
Mamacita says: I worry about the future. I worry about the future for different reasons than most people’s reasons. I worry about the future because present generations aren’t learning about the...
View ArticleI See Stupid People
Mamacita says: It worries me that so many of our students don’t have enough schema to make simple connections – at least, what were once considered simple connections. You know. Those people,...
View ArticleQuotation Saturday: Imagination
Mamacita says: A lot of Saturdays have come and gone lately without Quotation Saturday. How have we managed to cope, I ask you all. . . . Since I stand firmly with Albert Einstein’s “Imagination is...
View ArticleNoah, You’re Not the Only One Who Survived a Flood
Mamacita says: First of all, please remember that the literal level is the very lowest, simplest, basic form of reading and interpretation. Good readers and thinkers have advanced above the literal...
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