History is a funny thing. They say it's written by the victors but even when the "good guys" win, the history taught is often, let's say, incomplete. Back in school we'd learn about all sorts of feel good American equality stuff but how many learned about Black Wall Street and the Tusla Race Massacre? I've knew about the Green Book and Sundown Towns years before the "Green Book" movie and was shocked when I did learn about the towns, how recently they've existed and how many existed up up north.

Finally we get to teachers observing teachers - what Mark was writing about to begin with. These observations could be a one off, for a few days, or even through a full course. This could also be a team teaching situation but to be honest, I think that's a different beast. If I'm team teaching a course with someone, true, I can learn from them if and when we do joint preperation and things like grading and yes, I can learn something by being in the room when they're leading some activity but it's not the same since at that time, my job isn't to observe, my job would be to do something else to enhance the lesson - direct student support perhaps.

Cervantes monument Taking time out from my observation blog posts to write up a trip report. For the past few winters, Devorah and I have been trying to spend a few days somewhere warmer. Not necessarily warm, but warmer. We've done San Diego twice then Charleston and last year Savannah. We were thinking of New Orleans this time around but we're going there for the CSTA conference in July so started looking around.