#3: Book Recommendations
Man it has been a long time since I have written. I surely thought that being out of school for summer would lend itself to more blog time. I probably even intended on writing some sort of summary of the year with lessons learned, mountains climbed, and memories made. I still intend to do that, I suppose. It just feels…far off. Not as urgent as rest. So I’m closing out the countdown – the build-up – the slow and suspenseful reveal of my top-ranked thing on a completely unsystematic ranking scale. And I’m at number 3. Which means my next one has to be the second best. And this one has to be just slightly less best. The pressure’s on. And to be frank, I'm tired. I'm coming off a crappy work conference which turned my brain to mush: one of those forced-enthusiasm teacher carnivals where they teach us the same strategies people have been doing for decades; they just label it with their latest-and-greatest multi-thousand dollar branding. AVID, this time. "Engaging Students....