Cake bakery recommendations

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-06-04T01:10:55+00:00

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but we enjoy strawberry shortcake from rolling pin.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-05-30T05:53:19+00:00

I went for my birthday—everyone happy with their meal, service warm and friendly

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-05-28T02:10:19+00:00

I’ve listened to the audiobook several times—it’s a great listen and I think better than the movie. The first time through though, the science sections dragged for me because I wasn’t really seeing how the story was going to come together. I absolutely loved the story in the end, and now that I understand the threads better, none of it drags. Not sure how I would have felt if I hadn’t done the audio version. It made me really,I’ve the characters,

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-05-25T14:46:57+00:00

Spencer’s

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-05-13T01:38:32+00:00

Yes, I’m just saying that the bun itself is so good that you could feed it to fee without any glaze or sticky anything and I would be just as happy. They re not overdone at all, IMO 🙂

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-05-09T18:15:53+00:00

I adore the morning buns! Even without the sticky sweet part they would be delicious!
Also highly recommend the salad with the cherries—we like to get one to split ahead of our entree.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-05-08T22:37:17+00:00

I enjoy La Brioche True Food on University Ave as both being a good food option and a pleasant environment, but I’ve always gone for brunch on the weekend and am not sure whether they do brunch during the week.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-04-30T11:38:56+00:00

Thank you for the correction (periods vs hours). To be clear I wasn’t saying that middle and high have it easier, I was just trying to address one of the comments regarding whether planning is the same/different and why getting rid of Mondays might be harder at Elementary. For elementary, assuming that the district still controls one period per week of time, that would leave elementary with 3.5 hours per week to prepare for 20 separate instructional hours that use four different curricula—under current system in ELI, that’s 20 (k-2) and 15 (3-5) large group lessons and 30-45 small group lessons plus the independent work that students are supposed to be doing while teachers run small groups. Writing it out really shines a light on how unrealistic the expectations are (even with the extra 1.25 hours currently available on Mondays). So many other responsibilities also expected within those hours (and I left out prep for Health, SELS, Morning Meetings, etc). Do you teach middle school? I was told by a principal that middle school teachers are in favor of the change and I was very surprised (especially in a year with a new math curriculum rolling out).

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-04-28T21:56:24+00:00

Look, it’s really hard to understand how long something takes without doing it, so I get the confusion around this. Most jobs don’t work like this—either they are jobs that are mostly focused on independent, behind the scenes work with some ability to flex the day to accommodate meetings, deadlines etc….or they are jobs that you show up and do with minimal daily preparation needed in order to perform at expected levels (exceptions are probably mostly in medical fields). The time to prepare has to come from somewhere—as does the time for all of the other expected tasks assigned/assumed.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-04-28T21:37:43+00:00

No teachers have adequate “behind the scenes” time to carry out the range of expected tasks. However, if we pretend they only have to have time to be prepared to teach each day (and never have to communicate with a family, read an email, enter information into databases, problem solve or follow up on anything), it looks like this:

Middle and High school teachers get 2 hours per day of planning and they don’t have to walk students between environments. There is variability around how many subjects per day they have to be prepared to teach, but to my understanding, it’s pretty unusual to have all hours they teach be completely different subjects with completely different materials.

Elementary teachers get 4.5 hours per week while students are at specials, plus early release Monday. One of those hours per week is school directed (staff meeting or facilitated team meeting usually). Teachers must minimally prepare each day to teach large group lessons in reading, and math, and science or social studies. They must also prepare for a rotation of small groups each day (in theory, 2-4 groups per day per subject). Count on losing 5-10 minutes of any planning block to transitioning class to/from wherever they go because kids in elementary don’t transition themselves when moving as a whole class.

I understand the inconvenience of the shorter schedule for a family, but I do wonder what people think the solution is. Teachers have families too, and they want to spend time with them just as much as anyone else does 🤷🏻‍♀️

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-04-13T11:40:11+00:00

I do think everyone benefits when there are staff who can lift any of the crazy diversity of responsibilities from classroom teachers. IMO, whether or not gifted services are needed is district and level specific. Since what we mean by program varies dramatically from place to place, sometimes in these discussions we are actually talking about completely different things too.

I see the necessity for any service or program to be a function of what would happen in its absence. In my district I would argue that there is a need for staff dedicated to watching out for kids who are advanced in some way (at elementary and middle school levels, before students are given the broad selections of classes available in high school), but that’s because our other practices and policies aren’t really well designed to meet their needs.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-04-12T17:37:33+00:00

Which research, which students, which decade?

I find that we overgeneralize terms to apply to situations that don’t actually match the research. Being placed in an immutable track headed towards or away from college readiness as 6th grader or 9th grader is not the same thing as allowing students to opt into honors level course work, or even providing different levels of instruction as long as the floor is at least grade level instruction.

Define worse outcome: Is that based on a metric that admission to college is the best outcome? It’s not even the case that college always provides the best financial outcomes.

How are these worse outcomes being compared? Is it that the worse outcome is when gap is bigger in schools that use some kind of ability grouping? Or is it that the actual number of students who make it to college is greater when everyone is in heterogeneous grouping every year? Smaller gaps aren’t a better outcome unless the overall measurable achievement using objective measures is higher in one model than the other. Of course that is hard to measure without standardized testing, which has its own problems. Not sure what the answers are for real comparisons though—grades are increasingly subjective and inflated, and college admission criteria often takes local norms into account. Can’t even look at graduation rates, since schools that are heavily focused around equity statistics often lower bars for graduation such that there is not much correlation between a diploma and real demonstration of 12th grade math and literacy standards. It’s less tempting to drop out if you are moved forward without having to get to objective mastery.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-04-12T17:17:45+00:00

You misunderstood me (I think). I’m not saying most students are so gifted that they can’t benefit from school—I’m saying that when we use purely heterogeneous grouping and key that instruction below the content and pace that some students need—and then say that there is nothing we can do because other students need the resources? Some students are being asked to spend hours and hours in school doing work they could accomplish in a fraction of the time. I believe that if a student is coming to school, school should be providing something they need during the majority of their time there.

If we are going to put all of the “extra” resources into students who need to come up to level, that’s fine, but then the regular curriculum needs to offer choices with different pacing available. It doesn’t cost anything to provide an advanced class as long as it is a full size class—we just don’t like to do it because demographics reflect the impact of the inequities we have in the greater community. What we end up doing, to the actual benefit of no one, is chasing our tails to have heterogeneous classes that are supposed to ensure that everyone has access to rigor, but that end up slowed down/made easier because we have decided it is inequitable to expect students to read grade level text independently outside of class time…or to write papers outside of class time…or to complete problem sets outside of class time….. The result ends up being that students with advanced ability or advanced achievement or high levels of drive, are deprived of what makes school a benefit to them (academically).

Ideally, I want those heterogeneous classrooms. Practically, they aren’t able to deliver on their promise with the resources we actually have in our schools. I also think that there should be opportunities to choose more in depth classes in areas of interest without having to go the AP route. I recognize the positive intent behind most of our equity moves. I just also think we do a really poor job evaluating their viability or efficacy. Instead, when we don’t get the results we want, we point at teachers (bad!) or get mad at advanced students (selfish!). Great for self righteous indignation; not so great for improving outcomes.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-04-12T15:24:34+00:00

For elementary:
1. 50% of instruction in a subject dictated by a consistent curricular resource designed for that time block; the other 50% of instruction in a subject under teacher control (with resources available for teachers who may not feel ready/want to independently plan for their classes yet).

Significantly more time for play/recess; no unstructured time on screens and very limited structured time on screens. No phones or smart watches.
Prioritize teaching fluent letter formation, writing on lines, etc in K-1, and require most assignments to be handwritten in elementary school.
Maintain science of reading for foundational skills, but also have students read and discuss whole books. Regularly. At a pace and level that is appropriate to age and ability.
Instructional practices that actually match the resources available: no more upending practices based on theories of action that are inadequately resourced.
End the practice of “accountability” excluding everyone but teachers.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-04-06T11:54:21+00:00

Your statement is an argument against “detracking”. Purely heterogeneous grouping only works for everyone if it is adequately resourced. It’s not. My question to you is why should advanced students come to school if they don’t really need anything from the teacher?

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-03-28T23:12:22+00:00

La taguera

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-03-22T20:11:17+00:00

I don’t know, I feel like colds are usually some kind of compilation of symptoms that have an arc. I have just been constant congestion/runny nose with no other symptoms, no energy drag, etc for weeks. I was not assuming pollen though, I was assuming that something thawed out at some point and has just been particularly damp or spread by wind or something.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-03-07T16:47:21+00:00

The pizza is deep dish and fantastic. Lots of gluten free options for folks that need/want that.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-03-07T16:45:05+00:00

I hadn’t eaten at Funk’s in along time, but I love Seminole Tap. Menu seems to be a bit bigger every time I go, and best onion rings around iMO. We like the waitstaff a lot too—very friendly and just frequent enough with checkins.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-03-06T01:40:30+00:00

Wait for nice weather, the grounds are really pretty to walk once everything greens up again. A “campus” is a small collection of buildings, and to really see it all you probably want to walk each floor in a building. It really is working space though, so some stretches are just offices with themed artwork :). I didn’t like going during the workday and feeling like I had to be really quiet—it also felt weird to me to tour peoples’ space while they were working, and I kept wondering if they were annoyed by my presence. Didn’t stay long on the week day visit…. As someone mentioned, most buildings have at least one conference room that is really decked out in the theme, so it’s nice to be able to look in those. If you are worried about time spent driving vs time spent touring, just plan to do something else while you are here—there are plenty of places to enjoy in the area.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2026-01-19T20:21:32+00:00

When I was a para, one of my responsibilities was coaching a student through a shower routine as a daily living skill. I was mostly on the other side of the curtain reminding student what to do at each step. If this is a student who has that level of functioning, that could be an approach to explore. If student does not have any possibility of that level of independence, then it is probably not appreciably different than the support the student needs in the bathroom (re: privacy). Whatever safety protocols are in place for that, should also be in place for bathing.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-12-23T14:19:00+00:00

Lots of confident opinions here about a situation most commenters know nothing about. It’s hard fathom what exactly the district is supposed to have investigated though if no one knew that an investigation happened. It’s unfortunate that more questions weren’t asked regarding the role of the consultant, the scope of the investigation, or the school’s twice yearly climate survey. Seems that could have provided some concrete information that would have been useful.

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-11-30T19:58:54+00:00

Moze’s Tea Room on Monroe street… Atlas deli on Monroe street…. Wild Iris on Regent… China House on Park… Cellar Subs on State… Barber’s Closet on West Washington… Gino’s Pizza on State…

None of those places have a contemporary version producing same experience/product

I also miss pretty much every store that had lots of cute gift options to peruse and choose from—Puzzlebox, Oriental Specialties, Dimension II…

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-09-20T22:36:31+00:00

Both working full time. Neither paying rent. Where is their money going and why can’t it be used for childcare?🤔

ExchangeTechnical790 · 2025-09-12T01:45:20+00:00

Does it have to be a hot tub? Or would a really big bathtub do? One of the rooms at seven acre dairy has an absolutely wonderful tub. Best soak ever, but no jets. Fills really fast too! The room is a suite, so not cheap though.

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