imperfect offering

wow.
not particularly articulate, but I don’t know how else to sum up my reaction to last night’s edition of the monthly toronto slam competition.
i went because i’ve been chatting with organizer david silverberg about doing a slam event at garneau. David helped to arrange to bring TOFU to garneau last fall, and I was [...]

verrrrry interesting post on gabriel gudding’s blog.
points 1-6 and 9-13 should be read as well.
Conchology: “7. The Narcissist is aware of the economy of disgust surrounding his/her behavior. S/he becomes more and more sensitive to this and consequently begins to demand private declarations of loyalty from those people whom s/he knows consider themselves friends — [...]

“This sense of intimacy, a personal moment in becoming a teacher, an internal drama really, is our second dynamic in the struggle for voice. One of the great surprises in learning to teach is how deeply emotional an experience it is and how quickly one’s emotions become fantasies of rescue and revenge. How easily one [...]

i’m hiding from my students this morning. specifically the students who I work with on the newspaper. we’ve been having a rocky road these past few weeks- they’ve been flaking out on their responsibilities, and i haven’t been handling it particularly well. I didn’t think I was coming down particularly hard on them, or being [...]

the week back from the break has been insanely busy- all kinds of stuff generating new thoughts in my head.
i’m taking a course on the New York School of poetry with stuart ross at This Ain’t the Rosedale Library and we had our first session this past monday. what a lovely thing to do- sit [...]

i thought i’d have more to blog over the march break, but I’ve spent a good portion of it writing a piece for this publication. I was invited to offer a response to a withering review of Shift and Switch by Carmine Starnino, CNQ’s poetry editor. I won’t go into many details about that review [...]

test

“when in charge, ponder; when in trouble, delegate; when in doubt, mumble.”
- overheard on a BBC radio quiz show.

here we go.
here’s some of what I was talking about in the last post.
i heard this guy at a conference a couple of months ago.
Stiggins interview: “Stiggins: I, too, have read that very important research. The key is to understand the relationship between assessment and student motivation. In the past, we built assessment systems to [...]

is it the time of year? we were just having this conversation yesterday in our department. what do you do when your students don’t meet the entry level expectations you have for your course. it’s a questions that gives us the most grief when we’re teaching 12U, aware that we’re the ones determinig whether or [...]