KBAR – Teaching The Outsiders (and more)

KBAR, Rerun

KBAR: The Origin Story

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When I was a rookie, I was always on the lookout for some sort of regular activities that would happen every week, and give me some sort of skeleton to hang the rest of the week on. When you’re a noob, that 54 minutes show looks mighty long and hard to fill. When I started […]

KBAR, Mailbag, Reading

KBAR Part I

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I was going to tell the whole story about how my KBAR program came to be (the granddaughter of the inventer of the name is in my class this year), but since it’s Wednesday and it’s ten minutes until eight, I’ll save the back-story for later and get right down to the nitty-gritty, as someone […]

KBAR, Reading

It’s Really Go Time Now

mrC

I was working on a post about a book every teacher should read. It’s called Nurture Shock, and I will finish the post about it later. We have a bigger issue to deal with here right now. Over yonder in the comments sections, Mr. M appears to have a rather pesky coworker, and he’s also […]

CTEL, KBAR, Mailbag, Tips

Mailbag: The Holy Trinity

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Sr. Enda (my seventh grade teacher) would be appalled that I used the title phrase outside the context of the Catholic Church. But in my seventh grade language arts classroom, my Holy Trinity consists of Father Vocabulary, Son KBAR (reading/writing), and the Holy Spirit of grammar/mechanics. (My ninth grade English teacher referred to the last […]