Teacher StoriesAn Experiment with a Multi-Author Blog.A Brother Moves On- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I woke up at 1 in the morning to the sounds of geese, roosters and dogs crying. My brother Adrian called me at 1:20 a.m. to tell me that our brother Alan Anthony Delgado died this morning at 1 a.m. He died after a long battle with MS. He was 36 years old. He was an all-american kid with a big smile and a bigger heart. He had what we called that 'Luke" smile and attitude of the character Paul Newman played in "Cool Hand Luke". He was handsome like our dad. Girls swooned when he was in...http://blogs.salon.com/0001191/2002/08/07.html#a6 "The Twinkle in His Eye"- (Found July 2, 2008 ) The Twinkle in His Eye On Friday, Martha Zepeda, our Kindergarten teacher and her trusted co-educator, Ruth Solis went on their bi-weekly student house visits. What was to be a "routine" visit turned into a "Lazarus" event for a man in the winter of his life. What was a shadow became carnate. The old man, who was in his seventies, entered the conversation between his grandson's teachers and parent by asking if his grandson was as quiet at school as he was at home. With that question, his own...http://radio.weblogs.com/0100504/2002/04/08.html#a51 Kindergarten Clausura- (Found July 2, 2008 ) On Wednesday, Martha Zepeda and I stayed until around 6:30 pm. selecting the last digital images of the year for the Kindergarten slideshow. After selecting some 20 more images, we previewed the show. With the last image, the song No Basta by Franco de Vita finished! Perfect! It must be great Karma, I could only smile as Martha told me, "see what I mean about this classroom!" Another minor miracle in a long string of them. Thursday morning, I burned the presentation project folder onto a CD,..http://radio.weblogs.com/0100504/categories/myorganization/2002/06/13.html#a174 (Untitled)- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This is a experimental mutli-author blog built to publish teacher stories. You know the stories that you do not find in the national or local media.http://blogs.salon.com/0001191/2002/07/27.html#a2 |