Making Friends at School Costs $0.20

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know I’m all about offering colleagues some nice tangible reinforcers to grease the wheels. Incidentally, some people at the new program hate my guts anyway…but they still liked getting Krispy Kreme a few weeks ago (watch Groupon–they run a “$20 worth of donuts for $10” […]

Wake Up, Roosters! It’s Morning!

I write this as I sit outside the locked school at 6:02am. I can’t believe I’m here before the cross country coach. I’ve got at 6:30am parent meeting to discuss a student’s pending reevaluation. This kid has been having a rough time, even by my behavior classroom’s standards. I know that the kid’s mom doesn’t […]

Stop the Ride…I Wanna Get Off!

We survived the first week of the new program. I’m not gonna lie. It wasn’t pretty. It’s Saturday night, and I’m still trying to recover. You know it was a tough one when scrubbing the ring out of your kids’ toilet at home looks like a smashing-good time. So many things haven’t quite turned out […]

Chasing the Elusive Data-Corn

Jenny and I are continuing to get all set up for the new year and the new program. Part of me wants to shut down because I feel so overwhelmed with the enormity of small, time-consuming tasks we still need to accomplish in the last 10 days before the kids come, but now that we’re […]