Monthly Archives: September 2008

THE NEVILLE BROTHERS PLAYED “YELLOW MOON” AND WE GOT A LITTLE BIT BETTER THIS WEEK

Last week Anne and I drove up to LA to see the legendary Neville Brothers at the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard. The Neville Brothers have been performing together for thirty years. They started playing their own brand of … Continue reading

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STORE BOUGHT TAMALES

In August the air in San Diego is temperate and still warm enough to remind us all of the beaches that we left so hastily. We report to school in mid-July.  It is our calendar.  We offer our children 20 … Continue reading

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Horrible Storms… Exotic Names

Television coverage of Hurricane Ike has dominated the airwaves in the last several days, just as it had with Hurricane Gustav a few weeks ago and Katrina three years before that.  I watched the coverage through the same lens that … Continue reading

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PUZZLE FIT THE THE PIECES…OF TOGETHER

Like the title of this post, we had many of the puzzle pieces, but they weren’t quite fitting together.   We were searching for ‘alignment’ in our teaching… what Richard Ellmore refers to as “internal accountability”.  And we were coming … Continue reading

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