Awhile back we went over to some friends house for dinner and at this dinner our friend made the most delicious salad ever. Never in my life did I think I would love a salad unless it was fruit or snicker salad but this salad has the best combination of ingredients. Mark and I both really like it. So I thought I would share it with you all in case you need some help eating vegetables as I do .
Salad Ingredients
1 bunch Romaine Lettuce
2/3 of a bag of spinach
Green onion
Diced apples ( I prefer Gala)
Crasins
Butter toasted sliced almonds
Dressing (optional but tastes really good)
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsps salt
3/4 cups cider
2 cups olive oil
2 tsps Dijon mustard
4tsps poppyseed dressing
Combine all salad ingredients
Mix together all dressing ingredients (it makes a ton so you could cut in half or make it all and freeze the rest)
Combine salad with dressing and toss.
In other news.
(Stop here if you do not want to hear about the drama at Mark's new school)
The 6th grade Social Studies teachers at Mark's school are so not fun to work with. As I mentioned the curriculum for 6th grade Social Studies was changed in his school district this year. At the end of last year Mark spent a good amount of time going over the new curriculum and making an outline on how to teach it while lining it up with the State standards. Well, this rather difficult teacher (ask any teacher at Mark's school who has to work with her and they will say she is difficult) told Mark (not knowing that he was the one who wrote out the years outline and had it approved by the district) that she was disregarding what the District sent out (Mark's outline) and teaching it how she wanted. There was a meeting at the end of last year that all 6th grade Social Studies teachers were invited to specifically designed to give teachers a chance to discuss how they would like the curriculum taught and no one from Horizon came. No One. Okay present day.
Friday: Mark gets an email from said difficult teacher saying that she was "heartbroken that this subject she loves is being taught so uncohesively and out of order" Really? If you were going to care maybe you should have come to the 6th grade curriculum specific meeting! You think? The other email Mark got Friday (from the admin) said that the 6th grade SS teachers were all going to have a sub on Wednesday for half the day so they could meet together to discuss curriculum (and do data entry another headache) with one of the administrators. Fine. Great it will get all figured out.
Monday: Mark got an email from the 6th grade SS teachers saying that they were having a meeting today (Tuesday) at 2:30-3:00 and would he come. Well Mark teaches 8th grade US History and has class during that time so No, he won't be able to make it. (And yes it is common knowledge that he teaches 6th and 8th grade) Seems slightly suspicious to me but what do I know? I don't think it's so much that Mark has to teach it his way but it was the plan set in place and everybody had a chance to come put their two cents in. Even if they couldn't go to the meeting they could have made an effort to send someone from their school. And its never fun to have someone say, basically "your ideas stink. I don't like them" especially when you put a lot of time into them. I miss Skyview, it was so orderly. Even if Mark is getting IB training I hope he can go back to Skyview next year. This school (teachers and students alike) have just been a headache. I hope that soon he can just stay in his class and not have to deal with other people. My sister's husband is teaching Science at a small school and he is the department, there is no one else teaching Science. Sounds great. I do believe that collaborating with other teachers can be very useful but it is not proving so here. Mark is ready to go teach internationally again and would leave tomorrow if he could. Such drama.
