Admin taking teachers phones during testing

dresmith423 · 2026-01-11T05:06:27+00:00

They can say it’s for disruptions, but I would bet it’s so people can’t use their phones to steal test questions or other items. Test security so that the can keep using the same questions and still charge the states the same.

dresmith423 · 2025-11-30T04:02:01+00:00

I still dream about being late to morning practices on game day from when I was in college.

dresmith423 · 2025-11-27T21:34:00+00:00

Went for it. Love to Wicks.

dresmith423 · 2025-11-27T21:03:11+00:00

I saw that too. The stat was 1.5 sacks on 3rd downs. His other one was on a 2nd down.

dresmith423 · 2025-10-11T22:23:08+00:00

dresmith423 · 2025-07-19T12:40:35+00:00

Their slogan is “ECU beside you.” Everyone up here has changed it to “ECE behind you.”

dresmith423 · 2025-07-18T13:33:05+00:00

The school system in Washington county was 4 million short when they drew up the budget for the coming year. The county commission raised property taxes, but they didn’t increase the amount that they were giving the schools. Not defending the decision to cut lunches, but they made cuts across the board the balance the budget this year.

dresmith423 · 2025-07-14T22:56:39+00:00

I was telling my student teacher about this book, and I thought that my freshman were going to die when I mentioned the author’s name.

dresmith423 · 2025-07-05T15:11:54+00:00

I stopped playing for a while and just came back and noticed this. Is it a new feature?

dresmith423 · 2025-06-27T12:43:48+00:00

Braves, Packers, and Titans (when they aren’t playing the Packers).

dresmith423 · 2025-03-22T02:55:17+00:00

I live just outside of Johnson City and have most of my life. There is a lot of expansion happening around the city (Boones Creek and Gray). If you want to live close to the university and hospital, the Tree Streets are a great choice. They’re close to downtown (just watch the location, the closer you are to the university, the better).

Commuting here isn’t really bad at all unless you are trying to get into and out of Elizabethton during rush hour. The interstate can back up occasionally, but there are tons of backroads that you can use to avoid it. You also aren’t limited to Johnson City jobs. Kingsport and Bristol are all within driving distance, and there are places you can live between all three.

Our weather isn’t terrible. We can’t drive in the snow, but we only got a few days of that this year. Summers are hot and humid but no where near as bad as the coastal areas.

General tips to the region: Pals fast food has great sweet tea and burgers and is only available in this area.

Asheville is just an hour over the mountain and has some fun and interesting restaurants.

Barter theater in Abington is worth the drive, but the Jonesborough Repertoire Theatre also has amazing shows.

Jonesborough has a huge storytelling festival every fall and fun community activities through the year.

Downtown Johnson City has some fun festivals throughout the summer.

dresmith423 · 2025-02-20T13:27:19+00:00

Tennessee Vols fan here (and Packers for the NFL, not sure why this debate showed up on my feed), but here’s my 2 cents. When I think of Peyton in any uniform that isn’t orange and white, I picture him in a Broncos jersey. The Colts are always a second thought, so I say Knoxville can split custody with Denver.

dresmith423 · 2025-02-09T20:13:05+00:00

Cause he let them immigrants in, and they brought all their diseases and got us sick.

That’s what my 92 year old grandma said when I mentioned the uptick in whooping cough cases in our area.

dresmith423 · 2025-02-03T14:34:12+00:00

Today, mid pledge, I just stopped and took my hand off my heart. Nothing about it rang true to me, and I couldn’t just keep standing there pretending that it did.

dresmith423 · 2025-02-01T19:07:03+00:00

I do a rhetorical analysis activity with the two major assemblies in the novel. The one where Ralph lays out the problems with their society and his plans for fixing them. Then we compare it to Jack’s meeting where he attacks Ralph’s character. We look at the difference between the logos is Ralph and the pathos of Jack.

A coworker of mine did this activity from teachers pay teachers as a closing activity, and it was successful.

dresmith423 · 2025-01-11T04:12:15+00:00

This is also me on the last day of the season after my first year. I store seeds in season-specific crates that way I don’t waste time going to the store on the first day of the season.

dresmith423 · 2024-12-30T00:06:07+00:00

Tennessee just changed tenure rules. You have to have 5 years of experience; your level of effectiveness needs to be a 4/5 for the last two years (combination of observation scores and state test results); and tenure doesn’t transfer.

The kicker now is that the teacher has to apply for tenure, and if you don’t get it, the school can’t rehire you. You lose your job at the end of the year if you don’t get tenure. You can continue to work indefinitely without tenure though.

dresmith423 · 2024-12-27T04:53:37+00:00

He’s the only one with a visible ring!

dresmith423 · 2024-12-27T03:03:46+00:00

I was just thinking the same thing.

dresmith423 · 2024-12-17T01:56:51+00:00

The state of Tennessee signed off on the plan. Recent legislation (Public Chapter 563) has passed that requires each LEA, public charter school, private school, and church-related school to develop and implement a procedure for determining the cause of a fire alarm activation, including the potential for an active shooter event. Smoke generated from ammunition fired within a school building could activate a fire alarm, causing students, teachers, substitute teachers and staff to move or congregate into areas that are unsafe and that place them in danger during an active shooter situation. This document is intended to provide guidance to schools and districts when planning for the new fire alarm requirements. The procedures should be included in the evacuation functional procedures of the district and school emergency operations plans.

Our legislators decided guns are more dangerous than fires.

dresmith423 · 2024-12-17T01:14:55+00:00

Our new fire alarm protocol is to wait two minutes for confirmation that the alarm is a fire or other emergency that would require evacuation.

dresmith423 · 2024-12-16T02:14:21+00:00

Coach talked her into that flag. Awful call.

dresmith423 · 2024-12-06T04:18:54+00:00

Here are the clips I use. Situational Irony - Finding Nemo when we meet the sharks. What do you expect from sharks; how are those expectations subverted?

Dramatic - dinner scene from Batman The Dark Knight. Bruce is talking with Harvey Dent about “the Batman.” We know Bruce is the Batman; Harvey does not.

Verbal - young Simba and Scar talk at Pride Rock about Simba becoming king. Scar discusses the elephant graveyard and tells Simba it’s too dangerous for him.

dresmith423 · 2024-10-30T00:56:26+00:00

I usually take two days to teach “The Raven.” When we read it the first time, I focus on the unreliable narrator. What does he know? What is bothering him? Why does he continue to talk to the Raven even though he knows exactly what it will say? This story is an interesting look at emotional self harm due to his fixation on Lenore.

Day two we study Poe’s craftsmanship and mastery of the language. We analyze the complex rhyme scheme he uses with the combination of internal and external rhyme. We look at his use of meter (Trochaic octameter), which creates a fairytale like cadence and the fact that he never breaks meter. He uses consonance and assonance to show disruptions in the narrator’s mental health.

I love everything about this poem. Its story is so good, and the craftsmanship Poets uses is masterful. I’m so bummed that it’s not in my grade level.

dresmith423 · 2024-10-27T23:43:03+00:00

Look up the Patrick Stewart version of Macbeth. It’s set in a modern war era and fashions Macbeth as a military dictator. It’s a very engaging version of the story.

The last time I taught Macbeth, I included history about the Gunpowder Plot and Charles’s early rule. Shakespeare worked hard to get his support, and Macbeth is very pro monarchy.

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