August 2012
10 posts
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July 2012
8 posts
“Ms. Lee. Ms. Lee. How do you spell love?”
– Akeelah, as she was decorating her “kindergarten certificate” with our class picture on it on the last day of summer school
Xzyla
There is a sassy, sweet little girl named Xzyla in my classroom. Some of our students are so quiet that they are nonverbal, but whenever I ask Xzyla a random question like, “What did you do over the weekend?” she always talks super fast, gives me a long answer, and says everything with endearing sass. I love seeing her dad pick her up after school. She giggles and runs to him when he...
milton glaser on art
happy birthday, milton!
his words (via brain pickings):
Art performs this pacifying function in culture… Its practitioners create commonalities… I always quote a guy named Lewis Hyde, who wrote about primitive cultures, where there’s an exchange of gifts that cannot be kept but have to be passed on. And the passing on of gifts is a device to prevent people from killing one another,...
