{"id":1109,"date":"2018-02-02T00:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T05:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2018-02-02T00:24:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T05:24:25","slug":"first-post-of-2018-itching-to-get-started-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/2018\/02\/02\/first-post-of-2018-itching-to-get-started-again\/","title":{"rendered":"First post of 2018: Itching to get started again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, rough, couple of months since my last post. I can briefly fill you in on all the stuff that has happened.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our second baby is 4 months old!!!<\/li>\n<li>My last class ended in wonderful fashion. I had a solid pass rate and I got lots of good feedback about the number talk routines that I began each class with (which I&#8217;ll write a blog post about soon).<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve wrapped up a PD that uses the problem solving and helps teachers learn using video (which I&#8217;ll write a blog post about soon).<\/li>\n<li>I took a month to come up with some pretty good New Year&#8217;s Resolutions (one of which is to write more blog posts, soon).<\/li>\n<li>I also started this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eczema-Diet-Eczema-safe-prevent-eczema-ebook\/dp\/B008OMW4DC\">Eczema Diet<\/a> after\u00a0 jump to two kids triggered the worst flare of my lifetime with the disease.<\/li>\n<li>After a fall and winter full of audits and external pressure, our school finally has a clear path forward for some of the things I oversee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This time was rough largely because of my own difficulties shifting to having a lot less free time, but all of the same problems at work. There was an idea that I just should sit down and focus, causing my blog to get a little dusty. This wasn&#8217;t really working. Now I just feel bad for all the things I&#8217;m not posting, and I feel all alone because I have no one to talk with about the things that happen on the job. In the next year I&#8217;m going to try to put more things on the blog, even though they may not all be of the highest quality and hopefully improve that part of my work life.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so now that we&#8217;re all caught up, let me talk about what is going to happen.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to give a black history event with my school&#8217;s librarian. It is tentatively called building intergenerational wealth and is going to involve the next version of <a href=\"https:\/\/student.desmos.com\/?prepopulateCode=tkjuc\">this Desmos activity<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to teach a class about the lottery, which will talk about probability through the lens of the lottery and how it operates in our neighborhoods.<\/li>\n<li>One of my New Year&#8217;s resolutions is to write more about the administrative part of my job, and figure out how to make it interesting and valuable, so that will be good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a lot to look forward to, and I&#8217;m going to get as much of it on this blog as possible. If you have any thoughts, questions, or feedback let me know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, rough, couple of months since my last post. I can briefly fill you in on all the stuff that has happened. Our second baby is 4 months old!!! 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