The Dream by Mark Lyons Image by StockSnap from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. “Aaaaahhhhh!” shrieked Mark. “What is it, Honey?” whispered Sally. “I had that dream again,” gasped Mark as he sat up covered in sweat, his body wrapped in tousled bedsheets. “Again?” asked Sally. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes. “What time is it this time?” “It’s 5:30 am,” answered Mark glaring at the alarm clock, his chiseled features coming into sharp focus. Even in his disheveled condition, he still was often mistaken for Brad, you know, Brad? “Was it...
How to Duck Out of …, I Mean, How to Get the Most Out of Your School’s Faculty Meetings by Mark Lyons Image by PDPics from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. Here are a few suggestions about how to make the most of your regularly scheduled faculty meetings. Hey, they are already quite important, productive, and well worth every minute, but just in case, these might make the time you spend in the meetings a bit more constructive. Bring along several baskets full of your family’s clean laundry. Sit in the back and fold the laundry during the...
10 Excuses You Can Give Your Registrar So You Won’t Take the Fall for Not Getting Your Attendance in by 9:00! by Mark Lyons Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. The clock is ticking! It’s getting closer and closer! What are you going to do? Oh, no! You forgot to send in your attendance! Here are ten excuses you can use so you won’t take the fall for not getting your attendance in on time. I was shopping online looking for ….. isn’t National Registrar’s Day coming up? What’s your favorite color? My semaphore...
If You Are a Teacher, 10 Surefire Ways to Get Your Attendance in by 9:00! by Mark Lyons Image by emirehan bal from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. Here are 10 surefire ways to get your attendance count in by 9:00 am each school day. Surefire! Invent a time machine. Go back into the past. While in the past, pay a delivery company to deliver a message to your future self at exactly 8:55 am each school day all throughout the school year and even into future school years. Have the message tell you to get your attendance...
Overheard and Overseen in the Teachers’ Workroom by Mark Lyons Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay SammySocks Etc. Blog - Comments and Observations from Someone Who Is a Retired Educator and the Father of Sammy of SammySocks Etc. Visit us at www.sammysocksetc.com. Forty-four years as a teacher is a long time. You see and hear a lot of things in the teachers’ workroom during the course of a school day. Here are just a few. Is this in my mailbox again? Oh, shoot! I forgot my copy number again! I stayed up all night watching To Sir, with Love, The Ron Clark Story, Mr. Holland’s Opus, The Blackboard Jungle, School of Rock, The Breakfast Club, Kindergarten Cop, National Lampoon’s Animal...
