midweek musings

For this musing, I thought perhaps we would begin with a word game. I will list three words and see if you are familiar with them and if you know how they are related. 1. Carpathian 2. Californian 3. Titanic While you may not know the first two, I am certain you recall the third one. The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of the most well-known tragedies of the 20th century. On April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic, this ship which had been to

Often in the education field, coaches—be they football, basketball, PE, baseball, soccer, etc.—are picked and criticized rather openly by the more academically oriented members of a school’s faculty. To be blunt, the Calculus teacher or the English Literature teacher or the Chemistry teacher may look down on or even make fun of the coaches because they feel the coaches’ work is not as academically rigorous or challenging as the subjects they teach. In fact, more than once, I