We're all ready to go for Magnet Open House -- here come the future Cougars!
Blog
Various ventures into Mr. Scott’s mind.
Tour Guide
When I start a favorite book with a class, I recall the weeks I was a tour guide for my folks and best friend from high school, all of whom flew to Poland for K’s and my wedding. I knew, for...
Babette Deutsch
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
Procrastination
Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. -- Christopher Parker I'm Looking at you, English I students. You don't have much time left until the characters...
September 1
Seventy-four years ago today, Germany plunged Europe into a war that eventually became the Second World War by attacking Poland.
NY Times on Common Core
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/opinion/blow-the-common-core-and-the-common-good.html?src=recgThe New York Times on the Common Core standards
Ken Robinson
The real role of leadership in education … is not and should not be command and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility.
Rotary Phones and Education
C.S. Lewis
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
NY Times Article on the Common Core
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/education/new-education-standards-face-growing-opposition.html?hp&_r=0We'll be implementing the Common Core in the high school classes at Hughes this year; all other classes began implementing the new standards last year. Here's a Times article about it.
Rita Pierson
I am somebody! I was somebody when I came; I'll be a better somebody when I leave. I am powerful, and I am strong. I deserve the education I get here. I have things to do, people to impress, and...
Rita Pierson
From the guidance department yesterday
First Day Back
Today was the first day back for us teachers. Usually such a day is not memorable: lots of administrative meetings, safety meetings, grade level meetings, content area meetings -- meetings,...
Meister Eckhart
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
Chainsaw
I hear a chainsaw somewhere in the distance in our neighborhood, and I think, “That’s a sound I usually associate with Babcia’s small village.” Then I realize it’s just my son making his car sounds...