Archive for September 20th, 2005

The power of comments

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

I’ve been thinking about the comments my high school students received on their blogs. It is really awesome what a difference they make for the students. So I wanted to say thank you once again to all who commented. I also wanted to post just one sample of the many inspiring comments the kids received.

Here’s one line from Dennis’s first blog post:

I look really mean but I am actually very nice.

Enter the comment:

Dennis, When my two year old son and I walk in NYC, my son is always so eager to say hello to people. And he alway seems to find the scariest looking people to say hello to. I am fine with this. My son can tell a good heart a mile away. Every time he says hello to the scary looking people they alwas get a big smile on their face and say hello back. I bet my son would say hi to you. He can tell someone with a good heart a mile away.

Derek

To which Dennis replies:

Hey Derek,

I am glad that you read my blog. It is cool that your son looks at the heart of the scary looking people. Your son is a nice kid. He looks at the heart of the people so tell your son that he is the coolest kid I have ever heard of, Thank you

Dennis

That says it all, doesn’t it?

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Back in High School

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

I arrived at the high school early this morning. I made my way to the Teacher Cadet

class only to discover that last minute scheduling changes were going

to make it necessary to reschedule this group. Too bad! OK,

regroup.  If I’ve learned nothing else I’ve learned flexibilty and

the knack to recover quickly and move on. So blogs for the teacher

cadet class have to wait until next week. Not to be deterred I headed

on down to the Getting Heard

group. I spent a great morning in Ms. Baros’ class. It was really

helpful for me to observe her teach and watch the way the students

interacted.  I’ll post a synopsis for the students on that blog

but I wanted to thank those of you who commented. It meant so much to these guys and to me. These guys were so

much fun to watch as they read their comments. All we got done today on

the blog was replying to the comments. They didn’t have the time they

wanted to say as much as they wanted but they were so eager to write.

It was very serious, a good serious. We decided we’d have to make some

posts later because they had much to say.  I did

chuckle when I heard one of them say to another - (No, I haven’t heard

from any girls yet)

Ahhh, the power of comments. I’ve written about it before but I am seeing it in a whole new light. A post is brewing….

Also, a post is brewing on high school. Lots of thoughts and observations. My head is spinning but what a good spin it is!


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