#bittersweet

The last issue of The Hoofbeat went out today.  It was good to do.  I posted the learning objective and the demonstration of learning on the whiteboard, as per District policy, of course.  They were as follows:

Learning Objective: Distribute issue 6 of The Hoofbeat.
Demonstration of Learning: I can show my peers mah mad skillz for the last time this year. #bittersweet

I believe it's the first time I have ever included a hashtag in a DOL post before.  Why the heck not?  On the day we hand out papers, I feel just a little bullet proof during the process.  Who could possibly find fault in my teaching method when me and my budding journalists are handing out a few thousand copies of our newspaper?  The demonstration that the kids learned something is both clear and completely tangible.  You want to see what they learned?  Read the paper.

I had the kids pose for a photo before we started out.  I thought it would be fun to send a copy of the picture to our expatriated sports editor who is out of state for the semester.  He wanted us to send copies of the issues he missed out on.

That's how we do it.  The papers are all counted and stacked in order.  We start at one side of the hall and end at the other.  We just roll the cart around and hand a pre-counted stack to the teacher whose name is listed.  It's a highly sophisticated system of post-its, and it looks like this when we get going:

And now, that's done.  All I have left to do this year is teach school.  Should be a snap.  I just have a little bit to do in terms of preparing my kids for the finals and preparing my finals for the kids.  Oh, and the senior awards ceremony and things like that.  We're down to 13 days.  Almost there...

#bittersweet