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Felicity commented on the blog post Just TOO Ready Mar 27

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About Me:: I am a teacher and artist. I like reading, cooking, music, art, film. Going out for coffee, browsing at bookstores, checking out live music and indie movies.

At 4:04pm on February 4th, 2008, terraambient said…: I love Catching the Big Fish. Great book. Good luck moving here. I just got here a couple of years ago. It's a BIG change from the east, but it will grow on you.

At 8:26pm on January 28th, 2008, Lucky said…: There is a little person and an envelope up top on my page, but when I tried to send you a private message, it said we needed to be friends to do so. Which I thought we were, so I guess the real message here is that I don't know how to use it. My students could probably figure it out.

I am so cynical about EBD because I teach inclusion, so I get to see what the supposedly "regular" kids are like. There really isn't that much difference, I feel like my students just got un/lucky enough to run across a teacher who recognized that they needed help in a different setting. Only time will tell if it's really help for them, or just a label that they will never shake.

At 8:00pm on January 28th, 2008, Lucky said…: This is funny - what population do you teach? My students are emotionally disturbed, which I mostly don't agree with, but that is another story.

The only info I have about certification is from the internet. . .From the NM Public Education Department, it seems fairly straightforward if one is already certified, don't know how it goes if one is not. There is this whole tier system that I don't get, but I suppose I will at some point.

My wife lives outside of Boston, in Somerville. She has declared that she is not coming back to NY, and as I quite agree, ABQ it is.

At 6:33pm on January 28th, 2008, Lucky said…: Hey, thanks for adding me as a friend!

I see we have a lot in common - I, too, plan to move to ABQ this summer, and am a teacher. And my wife lives in MA at the moment, so there you go! We're practically twins.

What do you teach? I currently teach a Special Ed inclusion class in a middle school in the Bronx, but I think I aspire to be a math teacher when I grow up. I'm torn between the benefit of the small class size in SpEd and the reduced emphasis on testing, and the fact that I really like teaching math. It seems in high school in ABQ I might be able to have both, though. We'll see.

I went with Fodor's Santa Fe, Taso and Albuquerque, personally. . .

Lucky