People who read this blog regularly might have noticed the high volume of posts this week. And yes, it’s Spring Break for Beacon. What’s nice is that while I’ve had a ton of things to do, and while I haven’t been anywhere near as productive as I could have / should have, I’ve enjoyed paying bills, reading the paper, cooking, getting apartment and nursery stuff done… even taking care of Kat more than I usually get to.

Now, this year is more insane than most years with soon to be parenting and grad school and all, but I look at the paucity of blog entries from Joe Luft and other teacher bloggers (including the Beacon teachers who very much want to blog), and I worry about the old "constructing a teaching life" problem. In urban schools, where do teachers find enough time to be reflective about their own practice, let alone enjoy the chance to read and talk and write about things other than their teaching?

I love blogging, I admit. I love the idea that I’m writing to an audience, no matter how small it may be. There’s something amazing about knowing your words are getting read that is, in my opinion, behind the whole blogging revolution. And it’s also the reason that so many educators see such promise in blogging. But it does take time… not just to write, but to think about having something to write. For me, that’s what always takes so much time. Yes, I read the blogosphere, looking for things to write about, but I’d like to start doing more original writing too.

Call it an optimistic Spring Break goal… now… back to that grad school paper.