Prologue:This isn’t some sort of five-year recap. Or things I learned over the first four years of teaching. Maybe I’ll write something about that in another post. Instead, I’m realizing what they mean when you hit year 5. Year 5 — is the average year a teacher burns out. Now that I’m here, I getContinue reading “5 years of teaching 9/24/22”
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Celebrating Six Years
Prologue: Kind of shocked I haven’t posted about any of the ABxAM anniversary videos. When I think back to the most recent years, I’m usually so caught up with the end-of-year festivities, the holidays, Aya’s birthday, and the end of the semester. I almost rush stitching a video together between Christmas and New Years. ButContinue reading “Celebrating Six Years”
Classroom Upgrade
Prologue: When I got hired, my site had just gone through WASC and a part of the expectations were PLCs or Professional Learning Communities. I’m not sure why, but they said it was “…imperative that the site explore [PLCs]”. I wasn’t here before WASC, but it could be that the site was not growing asContinue reading “Classroom Upgrade”
Red Rocks & Champagne
Prologue: I get so caught up in using writing as a tool to expel toxicity in my brain. I often put bright spots on hold or are in my drafts. Though I post about it on my private accounts for friends and family, I often find it difficult to find time to celebrate because writingContinue reading “Red Rocks & Champagne”
Department Head dealing with entitlement and side-deals pt. 3
Prologue: It’s May 12th, 2022. And I am tired. Emotionally drained. I don’t remember the last time I took a beer out of the fridge as a way to detox, which is what I did last night. I made some graduation leis on stream to do something mind-numbing. Today we’re revisiting pt. 1 of thisContinue reading “Department Head dealing with entitlement and side-deals pt. 3”
It’s been a long week
Prologue: I only intended to write once this week. And make a post about it. But this week was hell. I know there has been worse. Especially in January. But I think there was so much going on. I think this reflected the epitome of what normalizing work within a pandemic is like. It’s aContinue reading “It’s been a long week”
Literary Analysis Annotation Organizer
Prologue: This is a scaffold that I have been developing over time, adapted from an assignment that one of my Teacher Ed professors assigned us to do when completing his readings every week. During my undergrad in one of my Teacher Ed classes, one of our weekly assignments for the class readings was to useContinue reading “Literary Analysis Annotation Organizer”
Using Final Cut to edit a travel video
Seoul, South Korea Balasbas Trip 2019 Prologue: My parents have been asking for my brother and I to put a video together of the trips we had over July 2019. It’s been awhile, but it’s hard to make time to be creative while balancing work. Before, I could just slap videos together with iMovie, butContinue reading “Using Final Cut to edit a travel video”
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