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Repair Kit For Grading 2
Repair Kit For Grading 2. This is the second part of a review of Ken O’Connor‘s, “A Repair Kit For Grading, 15 Fixes for Broken Grades“. My last post covered “fixes 1 – 3“. Today I’ll be looking at “fixes 4 – 6”. Fix #4 Don’t punish academic dishonesty with reduced grades; apply other consequences…
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Repair Kit For Grading
Repair Kit For Grading. This post is the first part of a book review of Ken O’Connor‘s, “A Repair Kit For Grading, 15 Fixes for Broken Grades“. O’Connor identifies 15 different areas where he believes that grades are “broken”. He then gives strategies that would “fix” the problem. Today I’ll be looking at the first…
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From Lion to Cougar
From Lion to Cougar. Today I’m going to talk a bit about my experience of moving from The King’s Academy (TKA) to Somerset Academy Canyons (SC). Broken I didn’t leave TKA voluntarily. If I hadn’t been given my walking papers I would probably still be there. I saw myself having a long career at the…
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Somerset Canyons Wrap Up
Somerset Canyons wrap up. Monday, June 2nd, was my final day as the music director at Somerset Academy Canyons. This post highlights my thoughts on those 9 years. The 2016 condition of the program The Canyons music program was heading into its 4th year in 2016. The band program was failing…literally. They had received F…
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Memorial Day and parades
Memorial Day and parades. Tomorrow is Memorial Day and many communities will mark the day with a parade. That means that band kids will be suiting up and tuning up for their final performance of the year. Memorial Day Parade, Jr. High Memorial Day brings back memories of marching in the parade in Irwin, PA.…
