my old 3rd grade teacher

Last night I had a great experience that inspired me. As I was driving by, I saw a lady walking that looked just like my 3rd grade teacher, so I stopped, and it was her. We had a great discussion about teaching, and how it was "back in the day" when she first arrived in Califoria. It was amazing to hear some of her interesting stories, especially since she actually started her teaching in Long Beach at our school. She has inspired me to do some more research about race here in California, especially in years past. I have always wanted to write about something like that, and she gave me a great idea. It was such an exciting moment in my life! I hope one day that'll happen to me with one of my students. She taught me 30 years ago. Wow!

It seemed like my writing mini lesson went well, until I was watching all the results. I had to reteach about 1/4th of the class. I had watched this lesson at another school when I was in the BTSA program, and it was actually done with kinder. Of course I did expect more from my 2nd graders. Many of the kids did well. In a few days I'm planning on doing something similar to what I just did. We'll see how that goes.