Jerry Price's Page
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I am an 8th Grade Social Studies Teacher in Washington State. I am currently working on Washington's incredibly exciting and important Indian Sovereignty curriculum which stems from HB1495 encouraging districts to teach local tribal history in the schools. I am intersted in seeing what teachers are doing especially in the realm of Civic education.
- About Me:
- Connie Weber was my second and third grade teacher waaaaaaaaaaaaay back when I was an A2 kid.
Married to a dance studio owner and college sweetheart.
2 gorgeous kids.
15th year of teaching.
One awesome dog, River.
I live one mile from the place where my great, great grandmother homesteaded in Yelm, WA after escaping her cheating husband and travelling with 5 boys by covered wagon.
- Website:
- http://jprice91.wordpress.com
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You have a lot going on! Thanks for the note.
I'll really want to hear about your experience with National Boards--and everything else.
Hopefully you'll be the one who figures out how to juggle all these things successfully, and then you'll teach us all! I get run kind of ragged sometimes. Need a lot of woods walks to counterbalance things.
We should talk soccer coaching sometime, too. I've been a coach for about 18 years or so. It's fascinating work.
Those National Boards: what will that require from you? Is it a year-long deal?
Hang in there.... spring is surely coming!
How about jumping on the network and adding into a conversation or starting one up of your own? Would love to hear from you. What's up with your teaching lately?
Your dog River, looks like a joy. I have a dog named Kye now; she's a tracker. Spent many a weekend out in the woods with her. She loves hunting things down.
What does River like to do?
Ok, is this a dream, or what? This is one of the reasons I had in mind as I set up Fireside--that educators could be in touch with the people they taught, long after. So that they could continue the learning together. Jerry, I welcome you and feel honored that you are here.
What dog did I have when I taught you? Mowgli, the dalmatian?
We were in the outbuilding of the church on South Seventh. Those were the days. Seems we had a lot of time to be remarkably creative, and those days are largely gone by; the NCLB-era has changed all that.
And you've become a teacher, and about half of your years as a teacher have been within this age, of constricted exploration and emphasis on "knowledge-bits" and their regurgitation. Do you see the age you're teaching in as different from the age in which you were a student?
I do, but in the opposite way: things are overall way loosened up from when I was a kid. Less boring. More open. But as a teacher I've seen it a whole lot more open than it is now; I see a swing back now thats gotten things much closer to how it was when I was growing up in the 50s.
Ok, so you have two kids. How do you view their education?
(And isn't parenting the most demanding, humbling experience you've ever been through?!)
I am so glad to have you here. I treasure your presence. ( Get Chelsea, Kevin, any others who are important to you to join too, ok?)
By the way, thank you for your initiative, finding me on Facebook. I barely go there, but keep a presence to link it to this site. Yea... it worked very successfully in this case.
Welcome... please join in! Start any discussions you'd like. Let us know what you're learning!