Um. Who Am I? What Day Is It? What Just Happened? Oh...Tuesday. Another Marathon Day with a Little More Stretch Time. Phew

The day really began at 6:30 a.m. and ran until 9:30 p.m.. My intention was to get home midday to walk and care for the dog, but there wasn't even a second where I could attempt to go to the parking lot. This is to say that a Nurse Search candidate was well-received, we passed many items at ESTP and at Academic Council, the dice I rolled with new instruction for Extending Literacy went exceptionally well. I wanted to shift them to reading non-fiction so paired a current event with a reading of James Bird's Wolf Club. 

First: a short PBS News Hour video about Punch followed by an article I found written in India: Why the Internet Can't Stop Crying Over Punch the Monkey, 

Then a distribution of several Grant Snider comics from Thinking About Thinking.

This followed with passages from Wolf Club that pretty much brought forward all the learning from the video, article, and the comics together as a theme for reading the James Bird novel. 

It was a nonfiction lesson to help enhance the reading of fiction. In that sense, a very Kelly Gallagher-esque article of the week. The better part...the graduate students could stop and think about their learning so they, too, could adapt to older kids in their elementary teaching. I love when everything comes together as if I'm a professional who knows what he's doing from time to time. Better yet, I love with lightbulbs go off in the heads of my students and they thank you for teaching them and stay after to discuss their thinking even more. It's fascinating when you have those days as a teacher. 

Of course, waking up this morning, I realize I have to start all over again tomorrow. But I'll get there...I just need the coffee to kick in first.