{"id":552,"date":"2015-08-24T22:12:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T02:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/?p=552"},"modified":"2016-05-02T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T03:07:20","slug":"this-week-14-days-til-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/2015\/08\/24\/this-week-14-days-til-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"This week: 14 days &#8217;til kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm. Seems pretty quiet around here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This had certainly been a memorable summer\u00a0in all\u00a0facets of my life. First wedding anniversary, first project where I used desmos, and I had a baby! (of course by &#8220;had&#8221; I mean I torrented episodes of scandal while my wife was\u00a0laboring). So much\u00a0going on, and yet I have nothing logged here on my little corner of the web. Kinda\u00a0sad I guess.<\/p>\n<p>The point of my\u00a0blogging\u00a0is to talk about my teaching, not to talk about\u00a0my success teaching. When it&#8217;s time to blog, the little success guy sits on my shoulder and tells me &#8220;Don&#8217;t write a post, you don&#8217;t have anything good to write about yet. Go on reddit and do it tomorrow.&#8221; Trying to project success as a teacher\u00a0makes me shelf posts about my scattered ideas, my non-traditional school, or how I feel unclear about my teaching\/working situation.\u00a0If blogging is going to be a useful practice, it&#8217;s should be just\u00a0that: a practice. I should write about I&#8217;m doing, and hope that the\u00a0success shines through. So with that over-thinking, and this tweet as inspiration, let&#8217;s use it!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think I forgot how to write a blog post.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UseItOrLoseIt?src=hash\">#UseItOrLoseIt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Coffey (@delta_dc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/delta_dc\/status\/635898468620468224\">August 24, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>What I&#8217;m teaching this <del>week<\/del> year<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know!\u00a0So this year is going to see a big change in my career. I&#8217;ll head into school to get the details on Wednesday, but it looks like I&#8217;ll be teaching one class, and I think it will be different than the algebra I&#8217;ve taught the past few years. My goal for the year was to help kids become better problem solvers and help myself become better at facilitating conversations. This will have to be a blog for later in the week.<\/p>\n<h4>What I&#8217;m blogging this week<\/h4>\n<p>In addition to figuring out what I&#8217;m teaching this year, I&#8217;m lucky enough to edit the Global Math Department Newsletter. I&#8217;ve also been able to help out the website which had a few notable things coming before the school year starts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Projects&#8221; a collection of the various projects that people from around the #MTBoS create, contribute to, and depend on.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Newsletters&#8221; will house all of the letters that her sent out each week.<\/li>\n<li>More interaction, including a\u00a0form will let people give feedback about the presentations suggest speakers, and another one that will suggest other things to include on the site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m really \u00a0looking forward to the upcoming year and working with everyone to make GMD great this year.<\/p>\n<h4>What I&#8217;m thinking this week<\/h4>\n<p>This is going to be a long hard year. It is intimidating to think\u00a0about being able to grow as an educator and a father this year, but it will is possible. Before having\u00a0a kid, the one thing I could offer to my kid would be passion. Hopefully demonstrating a pursuit of being really good at my craft will help my think daughter think she should pursue her dreams. My daughter, who was napping on me while I wrote this, see below, is probably not going to give much time to write. I&#8217;ll have to start writing more posts on my phone, or in whatever other time I have. Oops, look like I brought her up again, now I&#8217;m mandated to take a picture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/wpid-20150824_210153.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"20150824_210153.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coast2coast.me\/carl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/08\/wpid-20150824_210153.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm. Seems pretty quiet around here&#8230; This had certainly been a memorable summer\u00a0in all\u00a0facets of my life. First wedding anniversary, first project where I used desmos, and I had a baby! (of course by &#8220;had&#8221; I mean I torrented episodes of scandal while my wife was\u00a0laboring). 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