The DJ Rollie D Story

Wow!  It's hard to believe that I'm already halfway done with my first (and possibly only) year of leading NED!  It's been such a fun time so far keeping up with schools on Twitter so that we can see what they're doing.  The website hasn't been updated in about a month now but that will change within the next few weeks. After a lot of thinking and a lot of idea-tossing I finally figured out how we're going to pull off getting Hot Topic opinions from the other schools in the division. Do one of the following.  Give students a generic opinion sheet and fill in the topic on the top. Or talk to the students about the topic and ask questions like how it makes them feel, any changes they would make, etc..... Bring all collected sheets, record student's opinions and bring them to the Division Meeting Share opinions with your discussion group When group leaders report we get a mix, and we record the ideas to bring them down to State. Before coming up wit

It almost seems like a repeat of last year as we've plunged into the new year with temps starting off well below zero and the windchill making it a lot worse.  It's never fun, especially when there's a bunch of little munchkins outside waiting for the bus risking getting hypothermia, all because the windchill and temperature combined have to be at a certain level to close or delay schools, which we always seem to avoid just narrowly. It doesn't look to get any better this week, which makes me feel like I've suddenly moved to colder climates than what we typically get in this area of the country.  Granted, it was a lot worse last year, but it's still nuts that we're putting kids as young as age 5 out on the streets to wait for a bus when it's this cold, especially with the flu going around so quickly this year!  Yes I understand that we only have a certain number of snow days each year, but we could always tack on a few days in June or start school