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Best Day Ever

Today was probably the best day so far of the school year!

It started out pretty normally. First period was uneventful. Second we had meetings. Then in the first five minutes of third period, I was walking backwards between a row of desks while talking to the students, and I tripped on a backpack and totally wiped out! As one student said later, "I followed the path of a downward opening parabola." I flew up into the air and landed flat on my butt. I did the only thing I could do. I burst out laughing. Some kids actually said they were really nervous because it looked like I was going to hit my head on the white board tray. Dodged that one I guess! So the kids were really nice about it, and we moved on.

About 10 or 15 minutes later I see a man walking down the hall way, and it's Jay, and he has flowers for me! It's not a special day or anything, he was just out and about and wanted to surprise me!!!! I introduced him to the class, and he stayed for a minute or two. It was hard to go from that to adding and subtracting matrices...

Even my 7th period that is just a bundle of energy and basically incapable of closing their mouths did a good job through notes today. Almost all of them were doing what I asked when we did some practice problems on the desks.

A student 8th period had been a huge distraction for the last 2 days, but after emailing his parents, he totally turned it around today and apologized after class.

Then I had a student from last year who went North come to visit to get some Algebra 2 help after school.

Tomorrow I get to go to our first round of meetings for Curriculum Review. It is nice to still be working and doing something that I think is so important and can make a difference but have a break from students for one day as well.

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