It was driveway yoga after completing 6,000 steps, walking up and down my street again and again.
I worked on the updates and the blog entry that I neglected last night because I was so tired.
I tried to contact the NY Times because they sent me an email notification that my subscription needed to be renewed. I finally got hold of them late in the day. That notification wasn't for me. I have a Kindle subscription, not a doorstep delivery one. The latter costs a fortune here in Hawaii, not to mention that it comes in a day late. When I did get hold of Customer Service at Amazon, I learned my Kindle subscription is on automatic renewal.
I packed up more books. Once I had four boxes in the car, I was ready to head to the post office. I carried in one package. I got a hand truck for the other three. I needed help getting those three off the hand truck and onto the counter when I got to the window. People rushed to help me—quite a change from the other day.
I suspect most people were frozen in place the other day, not wanting to make those two dufuses look bad after they interpret my plea for help as just watching my packages for me.
I was going to stop at Kaiser to get a flu shot, but I was running late for a video demonstration on how to teach math run by the LA Step Up Program. I was on zoom before the conference started. It looked like there were only three people signed in. The host said he was expecting eighty people. There was some technical glitch where people got hooked up with a different Zoom and had to be transferred over.
There were some interesting points in the demonstration. Moreover, it was good to be a member of an educational community. I can't say professional because many of the tutors have no teaching experience.
While I learned some new points, I didn't feel the host/demonstrator was that sensitive to poorer students' problems. I felt the lessons he presented were very good for teaching a classroom, excellent in fact. I didn't feel he adequately addressed the needs of the kids I was familiar with.
I love working with students who have problems. (Not the seriously cognitively impaired ones, but those who don't have the necessary background to approach learning in a sophisticated way.) When I understand why they don't get it, I see things I take for granted from a new perspective. Love it! Just love it!
Mike loved learning by studying the great thinkers and knowers. I love learning through discovery. And I love problem-solving and developing new ways of dealing with old issues. Dorothy says I always ask how? And why? That's true. It's fun.
I would love it if I could help these tutors solve problems. I finally got on the Step Up Facebook page. Problems #1: I don't know how to sign on. I read the problems people discussed: technical issues about the online options and difficulties getting hold of the classroom teachers to know what the kids are working on. No one asked an educational question. I would love to share what I have learned in my over fifty years of teaching.
Scott came up and scoped out where he could put a skylight in my guest bathroom. It's not so easy. It depends on the slope of the roof. I had picked out a skylight from Home Depot that looked good. Scott saw that it opened the wrong way for my roof. Back to the drawing board.
I saw on Facebook that a cousin of mine was married this weekend on Zoom. Whatever, everyone looked very happy. He is a young man on the spectrum. I can't begin to tell you how happy he looks with this woman. I wish them both the best. I have their wedding announcement posted on my refrigerator door in case I need a pick-me-up.
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