Planning for the new season began this morning.
Honestly, after having taken the last six weeks completely “off”, it hurt a little.1 But like anything else in life, you put one foot in front of the other and take one step at a time.
One of the first steps typically involves rearranging the dates on the course calendar to fit the new dates. While this normally goes without much incident, this year’s calendar introduces a few wrinkles:
- Our district is taking a full week off for Thanksgiving for the first time. It only cuts out two class days, but makes things a little uncomfortable towards the end of the 1st semester.
- We are taking a full school day to administer the SAT to our students. We already do this for the PSAT in October, but now we’re adding the SAT in February.
- Spring Break occurs a week later in the calendar. This is actually quite nice, as it allows us to get through inference with means at a more leisurely pace.2
As you can see, there’s a long to-do list of ideas for the course that I would like to implement someday. Whether or not they ever see the light of day this upcoming season remains to be seen.
Oh, and if you’re curious about “fecal matter on top of lemons”, that idea came about from a lunch conversation I had last summer3 with some friends about the lemons that we often put into our drinking water at restaurants. Do you ever wonder how well they clean those things?4
- Actually, it hurt a lot. [↩]
- It also gives us some room for adjustments, in case we experience another “ice-pocalypse”… you know, “ice days” without any ice… [↩]
- which means this idea was on my list for all of last year, but never found its way into the classroom. Maybe this year… [↩]
- Perhaps it’s better if you don’t think about that one too much… =) [↩]