I’m looking forward to getting married on Friday and what will be the biggest party that I will probably ever plan myself. \u00a0There is an amazing amount of things you can choose to do yourself when planning a wedding and we are doing just about all of it. \u00a0I ironed 11 table clothes yesterday (19 more to go!), and helped design the program. \u00a0It’s one of those things where\u00a0we could keep investing and endless amount of time\u00a0into the details,\u00a0so\u00a0it’s hard\u00a0to know if you’ve done too much, or you should just settle\u00a0for the traditional option. \u00a0It seems a bit like teaching in this sense, and\u00a0since we are both teachers, we are quite comfortable coming up with our own activities, formatting documents, and otherwise putting in a lot of effort to make an experience a little bit better.<\/p>\n
Since it’s summer vacation and I’m not teaching summer school (Woo hoo!<\/a>), I can’t write about what I’m teaching this week like I do most weeks. \u00a0Instead I will write about what I plan to do to get better at teaching this week. \u00a0Next week\u00a0I will head\u00a0out on a pretty long honey moon and will have a lot of time to sit down and read some books and articles on my kindle. \u00a0In the time between ironing tablecloths (19!) I’ll be loading up my kindle with\u00a0books to read to improve my teaching and get caught up on the goings on in the Math Ed world. \u00a0Any suggestions?<\/p>\n What I’m blogging this week:<\/p>\n What do I do with this blog this week? \u00a0I have a number of posts I want to make about the NCTM conference meeting that I attended last week along with Robert Kaplinsky<\/a>, a recap of my talk on Global Math Department<\/a>, and a wrap up of my teaching year. \u00a0Whether or not these things will happen will depend on how many tableclothes get ironed (have I mentioned that I’m\u00a0ironing tablecloths?), so I’m not going to make any promises here.<\/p>\n What I’m thinking this week<\/p>\n Yesterday I was at the post office and saw a small swarm of kids running and climbing all over everything as their mother waited in a long slow line. \u00a0Upon seeing\u00a0kids in unstructured activities, the teacher in me began to think that they should be in a controlled and nurturing environment, like school. \u00a0In all reality, the real world is not like school, and\u00a0I as an adult realize that the post office is not a going to place where kid or adults\u00a0have room to explore, and learn and grow. \u00a0But what if it was? \u00a0Summer vacation puts kids into places where only adults spend their time and it should forces\u00a0people to think about what these kids are learning during their time in this place. \u00a0Maybe this is a good thing. \u00a0Maybe kids should spend more time in these spaces in order for some acclimation to occur, and I mean the adults to acclimate to the kids. \u00a0Yeah, the kids may learn they need to “behave” or whatever, but the Post Office, and society at large, can also begin to learn how to think through interactions with kids. \u00a0Restaurants have been getting it right for years. \u00a0Kids show up and they have a different menu usually with some reading material, some crayons\u00a0and some engaging activities on a kids menu. \u00a0 \u00a0If the question of\u00a0what kids are learning was actively considered by business, institutions, and other people outside\u00a0of schools, it might even\u00a0change the way people talk about education. With everyone in the role of educator for some small part of their day, perhaps educational conversations wouldn’t need to devolve all the way back to the\u00a0\u00a0“Well, when I went to school…” refrain. \u00a0What if everyone saw themselves as playing a role in the development of kids?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m looking forward to getting married on Friday and what will be the biggest party that I will probably ever plan myself. \u00a0There is an amazing amount of things you can choose to do yourself when planning a wedding and we are doing just about all of it. \u00a0I ironed 11 table clothes yesterday (19 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"This Week: Last Minute Wedding Preparations, Summer Growth Plans, And Kids In The Post Office http:\/\/wp.me\/p4xz6U-4b","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xz6U-4b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![Woo hoo!<\/a>), I can’t write about what I’m teaching this week like I do most weeks. \u00a0Instead I will write about what I plan to do to get better at teaching this week. \u00a0Next week\u00a0I will head\u00a0out on a pretty long honey moon and will have a lot of time to sit down and read some books and articles on my kindle. \u00a0In the time between ironing tablecloths (19!) 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