National High School Gradtuation Rates

I found this report from Education Week interesting. You can get a PDF of the specific numbers for your school district and I learned some things about Arlington that are good to know. The report also included this map of national rates by state:

National High School Gradtuation Rates

I found this report from Education Week interesting. You can get a PDF of the specific numbers for your school district and I learned some things about Arlington that are good to know. The report also included this map of national rates by state:

QotD

I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one
hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.
-E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

QotD

I get up every morning determined both to change the world and to have one
hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.
-E.B. White, writer (1899-1985)

Time for Timer

istemi pointed me at this anti-procrastination technique today and bookly introduced me to the idea of doing something for 15 minutes. Since having a kid, I've found that my previous time management style is insufficient to actually accomplishing much, since my time is broken up very differently. Both of these seem like plausible strategies, but both require a timer. I think it could be fun to have a cool, mildly decorative, possibly humorous timer. Any nominations?

Time for Timer

istemi pointed me at this anti-procrastination technique today and bookly introduced me to the idea of doing something for 15 minutes. Since having a kid, I've found that my previous time management style is insufficient to actually accomplishing much, since my time is broken up very differently. Both of these seem like plausible strategies, but both require a timer. I think it could be fun to have a cool, mildly decorative, possibly humorous timer. Any nominations?

Multiple Intelligence Inventory

This is an interesting version of this sort of thing. Is anyone surprised that my highest intelligence is verbal?

And yes, I seem to have a mild case of posterrhea this evening. So it goes.

Multiple Intelligence Inventory

This is an interesting version of this sort of thing. Is anyone surprised that my highest intelligence is verbal?

And yes, I seem to have a mild case of posterrhea this evening. So it goes.

Self-Evaluation

It seems to be annual review season on my flist. And I was thinking--if I were still in the work world, I would try getting my calendar to remind me every Friday afternoon at 3pm to send myself an email or make a private, tagged post listing what I'd been working on that week, how I thought I'd done in terms of productivity, any special notes (asses saved, balls dropped, triumphs achieved) and maybe a goal for the next week. If I had a self-evaluation form handy, I might even make use of its categories to organize my own notes. Then, when this time came around, I could pull up the email file, or display those tagged entries and have a whole lot of fodder to digest into my review.

In fact, this seems like such a good idea, I think I'll try it for my own reference. Maybe I'll even give myself a bonus next year.

Self-Evaluation

It seems to be annual review season on my flist. And I was thinking--if I were still in the work world, I would try getting my calendar to remind me every Friday afternoon at 3pm to send myself an email or make a private, tagged post listing what I'd been working on that week, how I thought I'd done in terms of productivity, any special notes (asses saved, balls dropped, triumphs achieved) and maybe a goal for the next week. If I had a self-evaluation form handy, I might even make use of its categories to organize my own notes. Then, when this time came around, I could pull up the email file, or display those tagged entries and have a whole lot of fodder to digest into my review.

In fact, this seems like such a good idea, I think I'll try it for my own reference. Maybe I'll even give myself a bonus next year.