Here are my questions.
Is she contemplating suicide and has come to this place so far from her
reality to carry out her mission?
Is she trying to call someone - anyone who can talk her out of her plan?
Is the operator sort of a lifeline for her?
Is she sweating because she is scared to
Where is she?
How old is she?
Why does she want to call Baltimore?
When was the last time she saw her brother?
The Phone Call
Philip Levine
She calls Chicago, but no one
is home. The operator asks
for another number but still
no one answers. Together
they try twenty-one numbers,
and at
Ginger,
I get so inspired by your insight. I am truly rethinking my position
as an administrator. My superintendent came for his quarterly meeting
and, of course, the ONLY topic was our testing scores. When I hear, and
see, the power that we have as teachers to make each and every
experience
Laura,
Reading your post reminds me of a conversation I had with my cousin (one of
my inspriations for becoming a teacher - she also started her education late,
and proved to me that it was possible). She had taught for a few years before
becoming an administrator. About the time I was
I was wondering:
Is she in an airplane and it is about to crash? She's trying to
contact her brother or someone before it does? I was thinking about
9-11 also--but thinking from the perspective of someone in one of the
planes because of using the operator--maybe a 911 operator?
Or maybe she is
I wonder, too, what the implications are for changing the face of staff
meetings. What if, every now and again, we started
with a short, provactive piece of text or a mathematical challenge to remind us
all how good it feels to get our juices flowing?
Lori
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:36 , Joy
These possiblities are giving me goosebumps and have me wondering when the poem
was written. I searched a bit but did
not come up with anything.
Lori
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:03 , Pam Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:
I was wondering:
Is she in an airplane and it is about to crash? She's trying
I, too, am inspired when Ginger posts her thoughts and experiences with
her students. I wish everyone posted more of these types of messages!
I will say, in response to Laura's interaction with her Supt., that
Superintendents are faced with the stark reality of test scores and
reporting to the
Wow!!!
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I, too, am inspired when Ginger posts her thoughts and experiences with
her
I think that the irony is sometimes they work against this, hopefully
unintentionally. Our area office was in today and gave a fourth grade
teacher at my school the comment that they liked what they saw, but wished that
she had taught deeper. She replied that the program the city bought for
Lori,
LOL! You always contribute something that stretches my thinking! How do you
do that?
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I wonder, too, what the implications are for changing the face of staff
meetings. What if, every now and again, we started
with a short, provactive piece of text or a
I'm taking a course and the following links are part of our lessons for this
week. (I don't have to worry about this, we don't use them!)
http://www.project2061.org/publications/articles/articles/enc.htm
http://www.project2061.org/publications/textbook/articles/approach.htm
I know they
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