I am excited to announce that I was selected as one of LAUSD’s Teachers of the Year! I am very honored by the award, but even more humbling is how I was nominated. Earlier in my career, when I taught at a charter school, I would often go entire school years with exactly the same […]
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With MiSIS in hibernation, it is hard to start the year off right
I try to make a phone call to every student’s parents or guardians before school begins. It is a long process – I have 120 students on my rosters, and sometimes I have to call multiple numbers before I get through. Some lines are disconnected, other parents speak Spanish (and my Spanish is very weak), […]
Please Donate to My Classroom
If you don’t want to read the rest of this, just click here and donate! Otherwise, here is my spiel: As many of you know, data blogging is not my full time job. It is a pretty weird hobby that I do after my toddler goes to bed. My full time job is at Luther […]
2016 Year in Review
It has been just over 300 days since I started this blog, and in that time, I have written 95 posts. I started it as a dinky little Tumblr account, and have grown into a full-on Blog. And while I started by just sharing this with my students and friends, there are now people, whom I have never […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
This week is Thanksgiving, and I am going to be taking a break from posting. I’ll be back next week. In the meantime, I was hoping that you could help me out by spreading the word about School Data Nerd. Even though I do not get paid for this blog, the currency that matters most to me […]
Musings from A Ninth Year Teacher
Today I start my ninth year of teaching. Since I began teaching, I have had about 700 students, taught all four main subjects, taught four different grades, worked at three schools, served under four principals, been part of a California Distinguished School and a School to Watch, funded 14 Donors Choose Projects, gone on over 30 field trips, and ran […]
Taking a Break – But Please Read This!
I am going to be going on vacation for the next two weeks, so I will not be posting for a while. For all you who read my blog, I really appreciate you. I appreciate the questions many of you have sent me. I apprecaite the kind words many of you have shared with me. And […]
Time for a Break
The last day of school is here, and I am going on vacation starting tomorrow. I’d like to take this time to ask any of my readers (all 6.4 of you) to consider “following” my blog by email. If you are reading this on a computer, like a civilized human being, then the follow button is […]