This is the end
Nooooo. I have not been able to get this song out of my head all weekend. 6th Grade me would not have thought this possible.
(via momentarily)
50 Common Misquotations - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep.11) (by MentalFlossVideo)
I can’t decide if the mirror misquotation or Shakespeare’s misquotations are my favorite.
By Heather Sinclair Wood, CNN Editor’s note: Heather Sinclair Wood is a writer-producer for the CNN Newsroom. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from California State University, Northridge, and a master’s degree in education from Mercer University in Georgia.
Everything, EVERYTHING in this is true. From who you decide to befriend to how you plan. My student teaching involved everything she described, along with teaching in general. This section hit me the most though:
“But in the education world, it’s like breaking news happens every day. I arrived at school most days at 7:30 a.m. For the next nine hours, my cooperating teacher – the woman kind enough to let me student teach in her classroom – and I ran from one thing to the next; making copies, returning parent phone calls and e-mails, department meetings, discipline issues, maintaining order in the classroom and hallway, bus duty, assemblies and food fights. That doesn’t even include my No. 1 job – actually teaching students the required material for those intimidating high-stakes standardized tests. And don’t even think about using the restroom anytime you want. Nope. That too has to be planned, and usually that means holding it.”
While all of this is truth, there is one exceptionally true statement in that paragraph, ha.
Really worth watching!
Craig Ferguson and Geoff The Robot
OH GOD I AM CRYING.
I WANT TO GO SEE CRAIG AND GEOFF GDI.
I’M DEAD. I DIED.
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In case I forgot that I’m a nerd pt.2
Again, feel free to laugh - this is me poking fun at myself for my story-writing and artistic skills from the 7th grade (in which I could not draw in 2-D worth beans…or any form of currency for that matter).
Part 1 with all the details is here.
There is a poster with “Sail Away” because my teacher was strangely obsessed with that damn Enya song - I’m hoping that I put that there to make fun of it and not for brownie points.
- Yeah, that’s not what a Franklin Stove looks like.
- Gromit is sassy - therefore so am I. Especially 7th grade me.
Wallace ran down the stairs and spotted the old Franklin Stove hiding in a corner. “Gromit, pass me the screwdrivers and the metal doors over there” said Wallace. Gromit was helping out but in his mind, all he kept thinking was, “How in the heck are we ever going to do this?”
“Hand me the hammer screws, that knife, and some cheese with crackers!” yelled out Wallace as Gromit rolled his eyes. Gromit eventually got what Wallace wanted and sat back down next to tool shed. As he sat there, Gromit wondered why he agreed to help in the first place. He doesn’t even like cheese…
You’ve probably heard of The Great Gatsby. But what about The Great Gatsby Curve?
It’s a pretty wonky chart that illustrates how rising inequality is jeopardizing our tradition of economic mobility for future generations.
So what does this mean? Kids of wealthy parents already have more opportunities to succeed than children of poor families—and this is likely to get worse unless we take steps to ensure that all children have access to quality education, health care, and other opportunities that give them a fair shot at economic success.
I really like graphs. Especially this one. Granted, I would think a majority of people have already recognized this trend.
Tonight!
Fascinating Fact from the Nerdfighteria Census!
More people found Vlogbrothers through teachers or librarians than through Twitter.
Represent!
