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The fire control officer bursts onto the bridge, "Sir, I can't get to the engine room.  It's fire everywhere below."  "Go back and try again," McVay said.  Janney then appeared on the bridge, and McVay told him to take another message down to radio, "Say we've been hit be two torpedoes.  Give our latitude and [...]

I am starting to feel the stress of "Dynamic Online "Learning."  I put "Learning" in quotes because I don't know what "Learning" is happening.  Calm down purists!  I am being sarcastic.  I got your jargon:  summative / formative ... I got it.  Yes.  Learning is happening..  We just completed three days of Professional Development using

Well, tomorrow (August 6th) is the first “official” day of the 2020-21 school year.  No doubt the beginning of a school year like none other of my 30 previous years of teaching high school music.  On the eve of my 31st year, I have some thoughts.  I am going to take a risk and be

On July 27, 2020 was supposed to be my first day of Band Camp!  However, since THE VID has made a bit of a comeback, I cancelled the band camp.  I have no interest in a “virtual-band-camp.”  For 27 of my previous 30 years of teaching high school music, I have hosted a band camp. 

As my thirty-first year of teaching high school quickly approaches, I am one of thousands that have concerns about Distance “Learning.”  I wanted to share with people my thoughts. 1).  March 16 to End of the school year was, for all sorts of reasons, a disaster. We (public school teachers who teach in the classroom)

DISCLAIMER:  I wrote this article on July 14, 2020 at 10:40am.  At the time I wrote this, our local school district was still deciding how school was going to start.  Our school district is in Placer County, California.  I will not name school or district.  My blog represents me.  Plus, you can find out where

I love our country.  No.  Really.  I do! I love our country. Therefore, when I see all the anti-American rhetoric, it can hurt.  I know.  “That’s strange,” you might say.  Well, when you love someone or something and others don’t, that doesn’t bother you?  Just a little bit. “Paul, how come?  How come you would

With all that has happened the last several months leads me to ask the question, “Who is the leader of  'insert-name-of-group?”  When I asked someone that question, “Who is the leader you are following?”  The person responded, “I don’t know.”  Fascinating.  To be part of an organization / movement and not know who the leader

As we know, May 25, 2020 will be a day that will be an important date of history.  The murder / killing of George Floyd.  The days that followed are going to be not as “important” as that one day.   However, many life changing things did happen following that day (as of June 10, 2020

This will be my final part of my series “Begin With The End In Mind.” “Head on out and tell us how it goes Paul!”  Wrote with a sarcastic tone from a “friend.”  Loved it!  When I read that statement, I said, “Well, he is correct!  I am going to head on out and tell