Ned’s Keeper

Like many typical medium size communities, McKinney ISD holds a good school district rating in the state of Texas with a Recognized status. The town of McKinney was named by Money Magazine this year as one of the top 5 places to live in America, and it really does have a wonderful small town atmosphere. [...]

Here is just another reason why I want to visit Australia. Come visit me on Saturday, we’ll be dining by candlelight! Hopefully, I can inspire some of my students to do so as well this week during our morning announcements!

Thanks to Unklar’s grand scheme and Paula’s tag… I’m it! so here goes… 7 things you never wanted to know about me and now you do! Here is the post from Paula: http://tzstchr.edublogs.org/ Here is Unklar’s Post: http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/phs-dunk/2009/01/08/7-things-meme-unklar-klaarified/ 1. I jumped off a 60 foot cliff in 8th grade with my little sister into a [...]

Okay, I have been pondering for days how I would discuss Ike in my blog once I was back online. To be honest… I think after I get done posting this, I will be done talking about it for the most part. It was big and scary and no fun. What I do need to [...]

Have you ever just felt irrational? I feel like technology is feeding my irrationality right now. It is unbelievable that we can follow weather in so many different ways. My phone keeps tweeting with hurricane warnings, my e-mail keeps dinging with friends checking in. My phone keeps ringing with electronic messages from the town, the [...]

Well, I have been waiting for almost a month to go to my new school and I can see the end in sight. The district has finally reduced our teacher numbers and my principal is releasing me to go to my new position towards the end of this week. Although I am quite nervous since [...]

I need to take one minute to pay homage to my alma mater. Congratulations Alabama on one amazing opening game. It looks like the team I knew so many years ago. Here we come Auburn! ROLL TIDE ROLL!

So here is my funny story… I download all of my pictures to my Picasa account so that my family can see them whenever they get a moment. Sunday night I was uploading som of my stuff for my husband to get at work. I noticed a small map at the bottom of my account. [...]

As I sit here tonight, enduring another summer storm common in coastal Texas, I realize it’s just the beginning. We have had severe weather all day and lucky us… it’s just a good moment for reminding us about preperation. The second gulf storm of the season, Eduoard is heading right for us. Only one other [...]