Rockin' the School

I avoid mentioning the name of the school and district where I teach, but this time I can't. Check this out. It was just published today:

https://www.usnews.com/…/walled-lake-northern-high-school-1…

Walled Lake Northern was awarded a silver medal in US News and World Report's ranking of US schools.

Northern rated #22 of all schools in Michigan and #883 in the nation. (!!)

This may not sound impressive at first glance (everyone focuses so much on #1). However, Michigan has 1,572 public and private high schools. This puts Northern in the top 1.5%. USN ranked about 20,500 public and private high schools. This puts Northern in the top 4.5%.

Add in the fact that Newsweek included magnate and international baccalaureate schools in their examination, and the results are even more impressive.

I take full credit. No, seriously--this happened because of the teachers. I've learned that when you're in teaching, you get blamed when things go wrong, and expect the students to get the credit when things go right. I'm not doing that. This is because of the teachers--and don't forget it.

Go us!

Winding Down

The heavy lifting for the school year is over for me.  I finished grading my freshmen research papers, and I read/critiqued the scripts for all my seniors in their senior project.  The seniors have to present their video projects, but those are easy to grade, since I do it during the showing in class.  No big stack of papers to wade through!

My lesson plans are completed through the end of the year.

My seniors have two weeks left, and they're getting more and more restless, though we've had some great conversations about Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE.

The year is winding down.