Christa Allan

Teachers matter-what we do, how we do it, and the influence we have when we do it right!
THANKS TO ANGELA MAIERS FOR THIS!

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Written while wearing my “teacher” hat, I’ve listed several suggestions [in no particular order] for parents of high school students…
1. Some kids think whatever they wear the first day of school will mark them for high school life. Probably not, but unless Princess wants to wear spike heels and a tube top and Prince has [...]

Note to those of you who subscribe: Sorry about the blooper half-post! Arrived home later than I’d anticipated. Here’s the real thing:
Over a week ago,  I wrote about the necessity of organizing my blog life. Ever-awesome website designer Natalie Jost linked Fictionary, my blog tour/book review/author interview blog, to this site. That smoothed another wrinkle [...]

This time next week, I will be headed to school for my second day of Professional Development for the new school year. Then, the darlings arrive on Friday. [Warning: enter Wal-Mart at your own risk after 2:45 that afternoon.]
For the past few years, the school year in my parish has started on a Friday. Befuddling, [...]

Whatever invaded my body for the past 48 hours took leave sometime overnight. I woke up this morning feeling almost human, which is how I feel most mornings, so that would mean that we’re back to business as usual.
Just for the record, I have NINE days before school starts. NINE. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. That’s counting today, so [...]

Random musings….
1.  According to The Daily Mirror, new mommie Angelina Jolie will have to gain 28 pounds for her lead role in the upcoming The Thomas Crown Affair. A moment, please, while I go celebrate with a pint of Chubby Hubby.
2. Michael Savage said that 99% of autistic children are simply brats who aren’t properly [...]

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Thanks to Vickie Davis@CoolCatTeacher, self-proclaimed tecno-geek, for this!

Thanks to Angela Maiers and Schools Matter for the heads up on this video.
the Teacher Project Trailer (long version)

I’m at the airport, specifically in the Delta terminal, waiting for my flight.
Can I tell you that the person who named the waiting areas “terminals” needs undergo psychiatric evaluation? What kind of sicko makes you think about the end when you’re sitting around waiting for the beginning?
Too many rhetorical questions, I know.
Where am I going [...]

One of the bountiful blessings of the internet is site-linking, which can either provide endless hours of entertainment, education, or endless procrastination. A recent serendipity was finding Angela Maiers on Twitter, and that discovery brought me to her blog, Angela Maiers Educational Services.  She had me at, “Teachers need to be great learners to lead [...]

In January, my “mentor” English II teacher, Shelley E., strolled into my classroom with, ahem, an idea. In teacher-land, this generally signals one of those “we’re about to embark on one of those missions where no teachers have gone before and no student will want to follow them.”
Discounting the fact that I’m old enough to [...]

Overheard: “I have Mrs. Allan. We don’t learn anything in that class.”
Well, if you learned you didn’t learn anything, wasn’t that learning?
Too many students measure learning using the following formula: student + worksheet = work of consequence. Sad. How did that happen?
Recently, one of my students, writhing in her desk, alternately moaning and whining said, [...]