See What Happens?

My Strategies' classes' averages are slowly on the rise, and have been throughout much of the quarter.

Great, you say. Stick a feather in your cap and call it a job well done on your teaching methods.

But really, it's nothing I've done differently. Most of what's changed is that more and more of them are wising up and getting their homework finished, or at least handed in within the five-day window (which they'd better enjoy while it lasts because it may not be long for this world). As I've stressed to them repeatedly, actually turning in their assignments, however minor they may seem in isolation, makes a big difference when the time comes to calculate their quarterly averages. It really does.

See what happens when you listen, kids? Good things, that's what.

If anything, I hope I've toughened up my expectations bit by bit over the course of the school year. I'm not about to get lax on anything we've established since August 19th. I want to move them beyond. Keep pushing them. Even if we slip up on the way. Otherwise, we get complacent.

Excellent Writers Club meeting this afternoon. Easily the best so far. We lost a member (sob) but quickly gained another - and she read her completed short story to the other charter members of the club. They really enjoyed it, and they told her so. You could tell that made her feel good.