I'm organizing an #exhibit of #news#photography from District of Columbia high school #publications and #journalism classes, in December at National Press Club. Hope to see the worldview of younger folks through their eyes and camera lenses. #DC#HighSchool
The reason for the change in #Florida is concerning, but the change, itself, is long overdue. Teaching excerpts of #Shakespeare, rather than the whole play, for cultutal #literacy and making room for more diverse texts is an improvement to #HighSchool English classes. #DisruptTexts#K12#education
My kid’s rural high school hasn’t been able to get a language teacher, and so every year group is doing this Positive Behaviour Support class instead once a week (and I think two health lessons instead of one, if the language would normally be two lessons a week).
Thing is:
He’s already done the PBS lessons in primary school, plus they cover it in Form every morning.
He’s not one of the kids who needs to have positive behaviour explained to him at length, repeatedly (the kids who do need it don’t exactly benefit from sitting through a lesson a week either tbh).
He’s one of two students at the school already doing online learning for some classes.
Plus doing language learning in his own time after school.
We’d rather he spent that hour more productively and would be happy to arrange an online class for him or support him in an independent learning project.
Principal is pretty damn defensive.
Is there any chance of getting him exempted from this class on the grounds he is proven to be capable of independent online learning and offering a course of study?
And if so, how best to broach it without getting the principal’s back up?
(No shade on the school or the teachers, I know it’s a tough job, but this particular class just feels like a complete waste of time)
My high school cafeteria in #Fairhaven#Massachusetts had a vaulted ceiling using the herringbone tile system patented in 1885 by Raphael #Guastavino. The high school was built in 1806, financed by industrialist Henry H. Rogers, Rockefeller's right hand man at Standard Oil, and a native of the town. The building was designed by Watertown, MA, architect Charles Brigham. The building is still our high school today, now with a modern wing added in 2000.
I remember my sewing project were a teddy bear & shirt. I still have the sewing pattern.
I really enjoyed that class. It's been 37 years since I took that class, but I have used my sewing skills in a pinch often and used to make peanut butter & other no-bake oatmeal cookies often.
Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.
Frederick Wiseman is the fly-on-the-wall at Northeast High School, filming teenage angst and awkwardness. There's talk of #PromNight, and small dramas when it turns out that above-the-knee is not formal wear thankyouverymuchyounglady. The dance itself is never shown. This is High School (1968). I'm glad I never have to set foot in one ever again.