First Entry

Here it is, my brand-new Blogger account!

Just finished emptying my classroom on Friday.  This past school year was incredibly difficult, with student behavior (I was teaching 9th graders) having gotten worse each year.  I've been promised upperclassmen for next school year, probably 11th graders.  We should be notified next week.

There's a shorter vacation time this summer, since the district is starting all of us on August 13th (14th for students) so that we can be done with first semester in time for winter break.  This makes a lot more sense than the previous way of doing things, with fall semester ending and spring semester starting a month after we returned from the winter holidays.  I experienced that schedule only for one year, because our school had been on a three-track year-round calendar prior to that.  I liked working through the summer and having time off when not everyone else did!  Well, at least we'll have most of June off next year.

I'm going to try to post regularly and make this into a "real" blog, rather than something I use very infrequently.  Now, let me go to my Twitter account (@mathappeal) to input this blog address!