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I am split between sites. 5th grade resource teacher and 7th grade English teacher. Labor Day weekend, the beginning of the school year. Emotional ups and downs with teaching these new groups of students. I need to up my Explicit teaching game. Also my Socratic Seminar game. This is going to be good. Monday- Labor Day. I could go into work today and get everything set up for CICO. If I don’t it’s going to be chaos and frustration in the morning. Keep it simple though. I don’t have to control everything, I can set up a simple plan, then we can execute and do a strategic reflection on how it went. It doesn’t all fall on me to make sure it goes well, but I can choose to take some responsibility and be an observer of the system that I am tweaking. Reach out to colleagues before I go there though.

I am mulling over each option as it comes up in my mind. Should I stay or should I go? Leave teaching as i know it, or refine what I do and work on assertiveness? Is it a hopeless case of overcrowding? Can my methods be calming enough that the students can co-exist? Can my operations be so so intuitive that each item in the inventory workds as it should, and meaningful projects are getting done. Assessments and feedback are built into the system and measure specifically what they intend to measure. Reports are made from the data and delivered to the appropriate stakeholders by deadline. Sounds great. Now I need to get serious about operations. Start with a students’ goals and mull it over. Then report back with some activities and how to measure the student with those activities and a rubric or a scale.  Then I need the timing in place for the reports that I need to constitute my dashboard graphs. I will do the feedback in an analog fashion, using post-it notes for blog post commen...

This is a recap of the main thoughts that are bouncing around in my head. These are the things that I observed and somehow in my brain, I knew how to process because I’ve had enough practice at it that I have seen these things over and over again, and I know what to do. I am adaptable in social settings. I might be a little too quiet sometimes, but I can do lots of things in many different environments because of my experiences and the machinery that I was born with my hands in my feet and all of the parts that keep those two things connected mean let’s talk about spirals for a second and have some of my words are spiraling off of each other like if I just go back and pick a phrase then I can go off on a whole new tangential spiral path you know tangent is not something I know much about maybe I could increase my language skills. If I was more mathematical, I should learn about sign, cosine and tangent. How seriously do I wanna learn about sign cosine in tangent? Do I actually want to ...

What in the world does that mean? Does it mean literally putting picking up your shit with your  own two hands  and putting it into a container? No, it’s a rough way of saying take responsibility and step up. Use the resources and tools around you as they are able to be used to help you. Seek to understand how things work so you can figure out how to live. First, create a command center. Actually, first pay attention to what responsibilities you’ve been neglecting, see how they affect you and the people around you, and figure out what to do about it.

I posted the first video yesterday, and as of now there are some analytics to review. Also I will be analyzing my findings and figure out out where I am at with the quality of my marketing and distribution questions and decisions. C2.0- Marketing and Distribution -Understand how target audiences influence production and distribution decisions. I am out working in the slojesse shed. All of the different hats that I wear throughout the day, I’ve been distracting me by making me think that I am each of those people wearing the different hats. Heck, I’ve even been confused by my own branding of myself as Slo Jesse. In terms of brand recognition, which is reputation, there are so many things you should do versus shouldn’t do, but all of those vary, depending on what your goal is. So the actions aren’t necessarily right or wrong, but if you don’t have a goal in mind then there’s no way to measure how well you’re doing on the flipside you could just do it for the feeling of having fun, but th...

I prefer calling it the flow state. I think my first memory of being in flow state was back at my childhood home listening to Dad’s music on the garage sound system while I practiced taking off bike parts and trying to put them back in the right spots. Joy, curiosity, experimenting with cause and effect without even thinking about it. It was feel. My fingers memorized little differences in size, shape, texture, and I didn’t have words for it. It was feel. My nervous system works pretty darn well. I’ve also used that basic structure God gave me and practiced on honing it to do skills that are useful. Dare I say I have some skills? My mentor told me it’s not arrogant if you can do it. //Imagine a series of photos or videos showing me doing skillful things. It’s time to get serious about my media company- Grimm House. I’ve seen enough responsible people in my life to know what it looks like to be a responsible person. I know I can do it, but I’ve been letting fears of different sorts beco...

 My little outdoor table. My son brought home some throw away table legs, thinking I might want to build something. At first I was annoyed, as I usually am, but then when my wife instructed me to get the teak wardrobe from storage to set up for my clothes, I realized that the table legs would work perfectly to support the extra teak shelves. It’s the beginning of the outdoor greenery project that will help reduce glare from the white plaster c fence.