Comments on: Everyday Above Ground is a Good One

By: Changing Space | Leading From The Heart

Changing Space | Leading From The Heart — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:46:19 +0000

[...] week Jose wrote: I stayed in my classroom until 530pm making sure that, when the kidscame in the morning, [...]

By: luzmaria3

luzmaria3 — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:21:49 +0000

Congratulations sir!!!! You will love being part of this conference. We, teachers, have a tendency to forget that there are many more of us out there. It’s exciting and rejuvenating to be in a conference for professionals and get treated like professionals for a change and not just “some teacher.” Educators are a rare breed. You seem to just love them little people. They are lucky to have that support because it show your genuine interest in their well-being. Children are very perceptive and do appreciate the time and energy you devote to them even though they do not know the words yet. Nice Mr. V!

By: Tracy Rosen

Tracy Rosen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:56:01 +0000

Jose,
My response became a blog post. Here you go:
http://leadingfromtheheart.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/changing-space/
Yay – it’s the weekend :)
Tracy

By: Changing Space « Leading from the Heart: teaching and learning in today’s classroom

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:49:10 +0000

[...] Posted in change, environment by Tracy Rosen on January 12th, 2008 Last week Jose wrote: I stayed in my classroom until 530pm making sure that, when the kids came in the morning, [...]

By: Shelly

Shelly — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:40:37 +0000

Sounds like you’re an absolutely fantastic teacher, Jose. Those kids are blessed to have you in their corner…

Hope you have a fun and productive time at the conferecne.

By: angelamichelle

angelamichelle — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:30:37 +0000

you, mi amigo, are gonna make an excellent parent one day.

signed, and excellent parent *wink*

By: Jonathan Trenn

Jonathan Trenn — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:19:57 +0000

You’re teaching your students as much by staying and by caring as by your classroom curriculum.

By: Jose

Jose — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:06:03 +0000

@ e: I’m sure. NYC, born and raised, man.

@ Frum: Yeah, well it’s not part of our contract so of course people won’t do it.

@ Tracy: I’d like to hear how you did it so maybe I can get an idea for my own classroom.

By: Tracy Rosen

Tracy Rosen — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:09:52 +0000

I did the same thing! I rearranged the environment and rearranged the way we do things a bit too – the head-space environment.

It seems to be that time of year…for a change. I think that because we in the land of dark-when-we-leave-in-the-morning and dark-when-we-get-home are craving sunshine around now, we focus even more on creating positive situations to replace the light.

Boy, that sure sounds hoaky. But I’ll tell you a secret…I think it is true.
Tracy

By: Frumteacher

Frumteacher — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:05:08 +0000

I think it is wonderful that you join your class in order to see how they are doing in different classes. I wish more teachers did that.