Business Update
- This August, I will again offer my small-group, highly interactive High School Readiness seminars. More information and a flyer to come, but call or email with inquiries in the meantime.
- I am again seeking guest speakers for June's Real Freshman Orientation presentations. I'm looking for recent college grads to speak for about 5 minutes about their college experiences.
Resources
This site provides super-concise definitions and examples of each literary term via links, so you can quiz yourself.
Noreen Wenjen is a well-loved and talented music teacher, a good resource for students who want to apply to college music programs, and an all-around sharp woman. Click on the link above to learn more about her studio, or check out her fascinating and informative blog at http://wenjenpiano.com/blog/.
Tips & Strategies
New Year's Resolutions - Remember?
Remember those commitments to yourselves I asked you to make at the start of the New Year? Take a meditative moment and connect with the you who made that commitment. In the last 14 weeks or so, how well have you kept your promise to yourself? What has inhibited your fulfillment of your promise to yourself? What can we do to get you back on track?
Questioning Text
You know when you read something in a textbook that makes no sense, given what you just read in the last section? Good! That means you have the ability to connect prior knowledge to new information and to identify inconsistencies. One of my new missions in my practice is to help all my students develop their text-questioning skills. Stay tuned.
News & Research
Bergen County representatives of the state teachers union wrote a fiery memo encouraging members to "get some dirt" and "go public," and adds the education commissioner to the "attack list." Worst of all, they not-so-subtly implied that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie should die.
The Word on the Street about the Wretched Mississippi Community that Wouldn't Let a Lesbian Go to Her Prom
Long story short, and in bullet form. School officials and parents in this dreadful back ass community:
- told a lesbian she couldn't take her girlfriend to the prom
- canceled the prom when the ACLU got involved
- told a judge (who ruled against them) they would hold and invite Constance to an alternate prom
- held another SECRET prom for all the non-Constance supporting Hitler youth
Click here to ask your US Representative to ask him to support the Student Non-Discrimination Act (H.R. 4530) that will help to ensure that discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students has no place in our country's public schools.
"Researchers found that subjects were less able to judge the morality of others' actions when activity in the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ) -- a region of the brain located above the right ear -- was disrupted by a strong magnetic field. . . . 'Typically intent is the dominant factor in our moral judgments. What we showed here is that we can interrupt intention processing so people go more with the outcomes,' Young says."
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