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Elona Harjes had a Dickensian week:   It was the best of times; it was the worst of times- it was the end of semester.

Gail P also sees an end in sight:  I know we haven’t reached the middle of the year yet but I can already feel this vehicle’s momentum shifting to accommodate the race to the end of the year.

Bonnie K is looking forward to merit pay:  It’s been a tough week, dealing with the “small” election in Mass. I want to remain positive and will. Obama is my guy-BRAVO to his first year in the White House!
What can I say, I’m a political junkie and proud of it. Wait until we get to education reform.

Several teachers got teaching workouts this week…

Illya: What a wild week of work with grades, visiting student teachers, traveling, planning and teaching; now I’m looking forward to a calming weekend.

Mike says, “I taught/coached/presented to about every age group this week from 10 year olds to 60 year olds – some age groups are easier than others.”

Band leader, Joel reports, “This week was pretty busy in that I had no students on Monday, great classes and sectionals Tuesday through Thursday; however Friday’s classes were inexplicably bad; in other news, I walked 45 minutes, ran 15 minutes, Wii Fitted 100 minutes, lost 1.5 pounds, removed comments from my blog, got a haircut, downloaded MP3s, and watched the entire seventh season of 24.”

Nina Liakos: Teaching advanced (ESL) students for the first time in a long time, I have to figure out ways to ensure that the most highly proficient among them are sufficiently challenged.

Maggie:  Subbing for the first time last week reaffirmed my career choice and gave me confidence in my teaching abilities.”

Sara P-C: nothing improves my 5th grade students’ writing faster than having them score each others’ anonymous essays in groups – “mrs. p-c, it’s so messy, i can’t even *read* this!” “what is this person trying to say here?” “he’s missing his entire conclusion!” – welcome to my world, little friends…

Catalina: I had low key week since students were taking their semester exams.

Cynthia Calvert: I wonder why we senior English teachers feel we must assign research papers! Aug-h-h-h-h-h!!

Some teachers managed to get out of their classrooms…

Anne Mirtschin: After an amazing, exciting and exhilarating week of wildlife safaris in South Africa, where we were burgled by starving baboons in our apartment (with closed doors) and narrowly avoided an elephant stampede by mere seconds, I am now home safely on Australian shores.

Jim: Took a friend to the hospital today for a test on this beautiful sunny day.

Dkzody: A deluge of water made recruitment a soppy adventure.

Others need more time…

Mary Lee: I’d be fine if I didn’t have to go to any meetings!

Sheryl A. McCoy: Time, out of synchronization, speeds through the week leaving little time for reflection.

Janet Morrison: The emotional rollercoaster was in working order this week as I went from success to suck to success.

Some need to step away from the computer…

Cheryl Oaks: This week the technology gremlins appeared to cause havoc.

Ianin Sheffield: Lipsmackin’, Slidesharein’, Opensourcin’, Animotovatin’, GoogleDocin’, Tinychatin’, Flickrmakin’, Hivemindin’, Evernotein’, Youtubein’ – EdTech!

And rounding out the week …

Kevin Hodgson: The planning for a benefit concert of student and staff musicians at our school in a few weeks to support both schools in post-Katrina New Orleans and the Pennies for Peace organization is coming together but we are left with the question: what about Haiti?

From Middle Earth Ken Allan: Another wet and cold summer day with a sky choked with cloud and the wind howling lets me understand why so many people do not subscribe to this idea of global warming.

Tracy Rosen leaves us on an uplifting note:   My week is ending brilliantly as the sun stays out longer each day, brightening my world, my mood.