How to Boost Your Reading Comprehension by Reading Smarter and More Conscientiously.
This makes me want to add another goal to 2012 to clean up my google reader and focus my reading time.
January 6, 2012
How to Boost Your Reading Comprehension by Reading Smarter and More Conscientiously
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December 31, 2011
Get my Master’s Degree!
Get a job with my degree!
Do an unassisted pull up
Get a bikini tan this summer (who said goals had to be healthy?)
Go somewhere for spring break
Try rock climbing
Read one novel per month
Totally clean bedroom at least once a month
Come up with some kind of plan/budget to spend less
Make more friends
Run an organized race
Catch more fish
December 31, 2011
- Write at least one blog post per month
FAIL!
- Visit friends on the East coast in 2011
Sadly, also a fail, but Shannon and Mike did visit me here!
-Use my tent at least 3 times this summer.
I didn’t use my own tent in the Boundary Waters, but I did get in more than 3 nights of camping 
- Apply to graduate school.
DONE!
-Write a personal note to every one of my students before the end of the school year.
Nope, but I am facebook friends with many of them now!
-Stay in my apartment for a more than 1 year.
Done!!!!
- Visit South Dakota twice (first trip planned in February).
Not quite, but I’m going next week!
-Visit Chicago
DONE! Twice even!
- Put away ALL the clothes in my bedroom and finish decorating it.
I put away all my clothes at least 3 times…. but they are not away right now 
- Visit a new National Park
I’m going to count the Boundary Waters for this one.
- Visit Scott at College.
DONE! Dropped him off with Mom in August.
- Mail written cards to my grandparents.
Nope, but my grandpa did get an iPad and join Facebook! Plus I’ve seen my Dad’s parents in person quite a bit.
-Do something goofy with Alexis.
I can’t remember what all we did before she moved, but I’m sure that it was goofy.
-Have Chelsea read my Tarrot cards.
Done! We should do it again for the new year though.
- Try rock climbing
Nope But I’m putting this on my list again for 2012!
- Do a supported head stand in yoga
Sort of, I still have to be near the wall or I’m too scared, but I’ve done it!
Other awesome things I did this year:
Strait As in grad school. what what!!
Secured a sweet paid internship for next year
Did a pretty bang up job teaching 8th grade English
Ate healthfully and felt very positive about my body/health (most of the time)
Tried out a weight lifting routine last summer
Kept doing lots of yoga
Rented a Pedal Pub for my birthday!
Hosted a ton of close friends for 4th of July at the lake
Saw my parents at least once a month
Totally appreciated and took advantage of the prettiness and cool stuff in my neighborhood
Took lots of sweet iPhone pictures
Took my baby brother to a concert before he left for college
Bought a commuter bike and rode it to school (when it was warm and sunny)
Ran a 5k in my Dirndl
December 30, 2011
I’ve been terrible at keeping up with my edublog reading this year… I should catch up on theses:
Flypaper’s 11 most popular posts of 2011.
via Flypaper’s 11 most popular posts of 2011.
December 29, 2011
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December 8, 2011
Pill baby pill News, Video and Gossip – Jezebel
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December 8, 2011
Pro-Virginity, Anti-Feminist Folks Make The Purity Myth Trailer Terrifying
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December 8, 2011
Why Innovation Can’t Fix America’s Classrooms – Marc Tucker – National – The Atlantic
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The apostles of exceptionalism say we need more innovation. But our problem is not lack of innovation. Our problem is that we lack what the most successful countries have: coherent, well-designed state systems of education that would allow us to scale up our many pockets of innovation and deliver a high-quality education to all our students.
via Why Innovation Can’t Fix America’s Classrooms – Marc Tucker – National – The Atlantic.
