Yesterday was Miss Sparkle's last day of ninth grade. It left her a little melancholy. It left me a little melancholy as well. A whole year passed so quickly. I never cease to be amazed at how quickly the time goes. I confess that I was happy to be relieved of the additional time burden [...]
Tag: school
Maybe she really does know it all…
Cheyenne received an academic letter from West Fargo School District last night. Silly me, I did not even realize there was such a thing. I thought lettering was all about sports. Cheyenne was nonplussed when she first heard she had earned a letter, but once she realized that she was the only kid in the [...]
Inside Out
Building the capacity to craft solutions…
Tonight was Parent-Teacher Conference night for the 7th grade at STEM - except it wasn't. The 7th grade team decided to try a new approach. They decided that this year they would take key projects that they had taught across the curriculum and let the students explain and present upon those projects to their parents. They [...]
New news…
Today I offer three quick blog updates that I thought important to share. I don't get to do updates often, but these three warrant a revisit. Re: In Nya's shoes... Cheyenne was as all a-buzz about the Long Walk to Water activity today. She LOVED the experience. KVLY ran a nice piece on the activity on [...]
In Nya’s shoes…
Tomorrow Cheyenne and the rest of the seventh grade class from STEM will walk to a pond in West Fargo to fill gallon-sized water jugs which they will carry back to their school. The water jug activity is designed to give the kids a better understanding of what life is like for those who live in remote areas of [...]
The artful stalking of Mr. Wegscheid…
I was out school shopping with Cheyenne last week when she put her hand in front of her mouth (to avoid any lip readers in the vicinity from understanding her covert message) and whispered in a hushed voice intended only for me (but still heard by many), "That is my art teacher over there." I had to [...]
THE NEW FORTY 