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Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 9, 2026

The Work I Love

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Giorgio Ramondetta views Jan van de Cappelle’s Shipping in a Calm at Flushing with a States General Yacht Firing a Salute (1649) at the J. P...
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Monday, February 24, 2025

Grading

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Although I’ll be dressed and in my office, I will probably have the same look as this guy all day today. I need to catch up on grading. I l...
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Thursday, January 9, 2025

First Day

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The students are back on campus, and classes start today. Because I’m teaching a Tuesday/Thursday class, today will be my first day of clas...
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Friday, January 3, 2025

WFH Friday

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Thank goodness, I am working from home today. We got more snow last night, and I really don’t want to get out in it. Plus, I went to bed ear...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Understanding

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“ The painful part of being a queer kid is not in the knowing you're queer, it's in the not knowing. You know you're different ...
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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Disgustingly Shameful

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Yesterday, the governor of Alabama made ignorance a requirement at public universities in her state. Gov. Kay Ivey signed SB129, known as th...
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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Early Day

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Whether Isabella wakes me up at 4:00 am or 4:30 am doesn’t really matter that much. I can rarely sleep past 5:00 am anyway. It seems to be ...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

So It Begins…

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First, you’ll never see students on my campus dressed this way. Maybe if they are on the swim or dive team, but they they wouldn’t be out o...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Acceptance in Education

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Something I never thought I’d see in Alabama has happened. The Magic City Acceptance Academy opened its doors to 200-plus students on its Ho...
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Erasing History in Schools

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This past Pride month, as revelers hit the streets to celebrate LGBTQ+ history, Republican state legislatures were hard at work trying to er...
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Friday, April 2, 2021

Study Abroad

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The picture above reminds me of a trip I took to France as part of a study abroad program with my graduate school in 2005. At the time I wen...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Graduate School Trauma

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Every few days, I get an email from a particular organization. The organization's name and the emails' subjects are not important. I...
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Monday, March 8, 2021

The Importance of Studying History

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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. —William Shakespeare,  Th...
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Friday, January 15, 2021

Can I Use Your Bathroom?

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Neighbors of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are saying that the president’s daughter and her husband instructed their Secret Service detail ...
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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Why Are People So Driven by Hate?

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  The post title is a rhetorical question, because I don’t have an answer for it, nor do I understand people so filled with hate. In Tex...
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Thursday, April 4, 2019

Studies

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Monday, I started my last museum studies class. Once this one is finished, I’ll have my certificate in museum studies. This class is a...
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