SD81 Welcomes Students Back from Winter Break!
Today was our students’ first day back after their long winter break! They were back at work with many smiles for their teachers and friends. We are happy to see our students in their school buildings ready to learn, and wish all of our District 81 families a happy and healthy new year!
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Standardized testing.
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A few weeks ago I registered to take the online qualifying test for Jeopardy.
Maybe like you, I have watched Jeopardy for years.
Maybe like you, members of my family have said, “You should be on this show.”
I was foolish enough to believe them.
I was scheduled for last night at 6PM.
I had written the entry password down somewhere, so the first job was to remember where I had put that slip of paper from two weeks ago. I went looking frantically around the house until Anne reminded me that I had put the number in my iCalendar. You would have thought my lack of memory about this would be a warning to me of what was to come.
Excited, I logged on at exactly 5:30, the earliest I could for my 6PM test. On the screen of my computer popped a timer counting down. With…
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January 8 is National English Toffee Day
National English Toffee Day
Five Food Finds about Toffee
- Toffee and Caramel are sometimes interchangeable.
- Toffees consist of mainly sugar and water, while caramels use dairy products in their production, making them softer
- Almondy butter treats are toffee from England. This kind of candy is known globally and has many varieties.
- Michigan toffee comes in varies styles, some hard and some chewy, some chocolate covered with nut sprinkles.
- Tafia, a West Indian rum of molasses or sugarcane juice, is theorized to be the source of the word.
On This Day in Food History…
1676 Charles II of England revoked his previous proclamation suppressing Coffee Houses due to public response.
1800 The first soup kitchens in London were opened to serve the poor.
1823 Alfred Russel Wallace was born. Wallace was a British naturalist who developed a theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. He…
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Why San Diego Is the Best Urban District in the Nation
Something magical is happening in San Diego. It is a good school district. Teachers and administrators and the school board are working towards common goals.
San Diego, in my view, is the best urban district in the nation.
I say this not based on test scores but on the climate for teaching and learning that I have observed in San Diego.
It’s not the weather, which of course is usually magnificent. Los Angeles too has great weather but it is constantly embroiled in turmoil, with teachers against administrators, the school board divided, and political tensions underlying every decision and policy.
San Diego went through its time of troubles in the late 1990s and early 2000s (I wrote about it in my next to last book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, in which I devoted a chapter to the upheaval in San Diego, where corporate-style…
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January 7 is National Tempura Day
National Tempura Day
Five Food Finds about Tempura
- Tempura was introduced to Japan in the mid-sixteenth century by Portuguese Jesuits, during the same period that panko and such dishes as tonkatsu were also introduced from Portugal.
- Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, reportedly loved tempura.
- The word “tempura”, or the technique of dipping fish and vegetables into a batter and frying them, comes from the word “tempora”, a Latin word meaning “times”, “time period” used by both Spanish and Portuguese missionaries to refer to the Lenten period or Ember Days (ad tempora quadragesimae), Fridays, and other Christian holy days.
- Outside Japan (as well as recently in Japan), there are many nontraditional and fusion uses of tempura. Chefs over the world include tempura dishes on their menus, and a wide variety of different batters and ingredients are used, including the nontraditional broccoli, zucchini, asparagus and chuchu.
- More unusual ingredients may include nori…
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