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7 Things Speech Pathologists Do at School #education

February 27, 2012 at 7:00 am in School issues

I’m a fan of the “mini-series”– covering a topic over a series of blog posts for a short period of time. Every Monday in the month of February I’ll blog about a topic related to #education (at least tangentially). When I decided to become a speech-language pathologist, I really had no idea that speech pathologists [...]

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#Education: Cafeteria Bullying

February 20, 2012 at 9:35 pm in School issues

I’m a fan of the “mini-series”– covering a topic over a series of blog posts for a short period of time. Every Monday in the month of February I’ll blog about a topic related to #education (at least tangentially). When people ask me about my memories of eating school lunch, I reply that I rarely [...]

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What did #NCLB really mean? #education

February 13, 2012 at 10:12 pm in School issues

I’m a fan of the “mini-series”– covering a topic over a series of blog posts for a short period of time. Every Monday in the month of February I’ll blog about a topic related to #education (at least tangentially). As a school-based speech pathologist, I rely on evaluation instruments including formal assessments to guide my [...]

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#Education: Growing up with teachers as parents

February 6, 2012 at 7:00 am in Miscellaneous, School issues, Teachers

I’m a fan of the “mini-series”– covering a topic over a series of blog posts for a short period of time. Every Monday in the month of February I’ll blog about a topic related to #education (at least tangentially). This week I want to examine the history of teaching as a profession. I’m a school-based [...]

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Cooking Up Change (Part 1)

November 3, 2011 at 11:04 pm in School issues, School Lunches

Tonight I attended Cooking Up Change. It’s an event where high school students create a school lunch meal for $1.00 per serving and then compete to earn a spot in the national contest in DC. I was able to chat with every single team (12 teams from 12 different high schools from Chicago Public Schools [...]

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Back to School

September 7, 2011 at 9:56 pm in School issues

Those reading by RSS: Please click over and check out my blog’s new design: http://fedupwithlunch.com  I’m finally satisfied with the blog’s appearance thanks to Andrew Wilder at Eating Rules. He’s quite talented at WordPress! *** New school year, New school, Same job, Same district. Long-time readers know that ever since I started the blog, I’ve [...]

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Unions, pensions, and tenure…oh my! (part three – final thoughts)

March 10, 2011 at 4:02 am in Teachers

UPDATED: Tenure varies state-by-state, district-by-district, school-by-school. I am just one person. Please keep in mind there is great variability. Tenure is a bad word these days. But school tenure is not like tenure awarded to college professors. When someone gets tenure at work we tell that person, “Now you can’t be fired for wearing the [...]

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Unions, pensions, and tenure…oh my! (part two)

March 2, 2011 at 1:00 pm in Teachers

I remember when I interviewed. Towards the end of the hour or so we chatted, my boss pulled out the salary schedule and pointed out how much I would make. She said, “Here’s your salary, but add in your pension pick-up and this is your total pay.” Honestly, I didn’t think much about it. It wasn’t until later [...]

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