Herb Caen – Teaching The Outsiders (and more)

Guest artist, Herb Caen

Slow Don’t Necessarily Mean Stupid. (Also: Jhonny Lives!)

mrC

(Re: The title. As I tell the kids when I speak ungrammatically or in my peculiar classroom pidgin, it’s sort of like how police officers get to run red lights and speed and stuff. I get to make up words and talk however I want because I’m the grammar cop around here. Some of them […]

Herb Caen, parents, Seventh Grade Behavior, The Midwife's Apprentice

Various…

mrC

More grumbling… How about this classic? You give in to much pleading and allow something to be turned in very late. After-everyone-else’s-has-been-graded-(none-too-quickly)-and-returned kind of late. And then…THE NEXT DAY, you start getting pestered, “Have you graded that yet?” I’ll get right on it. Grumble… Or this one: You get handed a pile of stapled work. […]

Exercise, Herb Caen, Teaching, testing, Twitter

Dot Dot Dot (Also: 4.7 miles!)

mrC

Back in the day, the San Francisco Chronicle had a columnist named Herb Caen. With the exception of eight years or so in the 50’s when he jumped ship for the Examiner, he wrote a daily column for the Chronicle from the 30’s until he died in 1997. He’s the one that invented the word […]