A few weeks ago, my wife and I saw The Bounty Hunter for date night (verdict: blah. The movie, that is. Not date night.). First, however, among the previews was a trailer for this summer’s Julia Roberts vehicle, Eat, Pray, Love, which looked interesting. I saw that it was based on a book, and put it [...]
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Book Review: Eat, Pray, Love
Posted in Language and Literature, tagged book reviews, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, memoir, reading, travel on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Political Ecumenism
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged conversations, debate, ecumenical, ideas, politics on April 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ve seen plenty of ecumenical books where people of different religions write explanations of their beliefs and then respond to each other with courtesy and respect, but never one for people with different political beliefs. Both political extremes in America demonize and insult each other (and I’ve been guilty of that before, too, and need to [...]
The Condensed Book of Mormon, In 15 Verses
Posted in Religion, tagged Atonement, Bible, Book of Mormon, discipleship, First Thoughts, Jesus Christ, scripture study on April 23, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Today I read the most amazing blog post, courtesy of our friends at First Thoughts. A seminarian named Sarah Wilson thought to abbreviate the Bible by selecting just one representative verse from each book, resulting in a breathtaking tour through the highlights of scripture. Her method was basically to find the verse in each book [...]
Counseling With Counselors, part II
Posted in Education, tagged counseling, educational standards, personal responsibility, schools on April 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This morning, I received the following email from a counselor colleague: _____ is currently getting an “F” in your _____ class ____ period. She feels she will not be able to get her percentage up enough to pass, and therefore has signed up for AIS Eng. 4, second semester. Would you please allow her to [...]
Counseling With Counselors, part I
Posted in Education, tagged academic achievement, effort, homework, parents, personal responsibility on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday, a counselor at my school sent an email out to all of a certain student’s teachers, asking for help with his struggling performance, at the request of the student and his mother. Though I commended them for this interest and effort, and the counselor for facilitating that, the substance of my comments was as follows: [...]
Sentence Diagramming: Huston For The Defense
Posted in Language and Literature, tagged English, grammar, language, sentence diagramming on April 22, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Yesterday, a reader named Vicki posted the following comment under an old post of mine called, “On The Joy Of Sentence Diagramming:” “I’m still not convinced that sentence diagramming is profitable. If the goal it communication, why does the student have to know that what he is saying is a noun or verb, etc… If [...]
Quietus
Posted in Humor, tagged Children of Men, P.D. James, Quietus on April 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I just realized why those radio ads for Quietus are so disturbing. They’re selling a cure for ringing ears, but they must not have known that the name had already been used. In Children of Men, a dystopian novel about global infertility, Quietus is what they call mass suicides by drowning. Next time I hear [...]
Me, Jim Rogers, and the New Superintendent
Posted in Education, tagged CCSD, Jim Rogers, Las Vegas, superintendent on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
So I got a phone call from mutli-millionaire media mogul Jim Rogers yesterday. He wanted to talk about the upcoming superintendent vacancy in our school district. I’ve been trying to get good ideas out there about the future of education around here, but not with much success. I spoke at the school board meeting a [...]
Captain Obvious, You’ve Saved Us Again!
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged parenting on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Study links students’ achievement to family. Duh. In another controversial study, research finds that the sky is blue, water is wet, and the Earth, apparently, turns out to be round.
GPS
Posted in Education, Politics and Society, tagged GPS, parenting, Texas on April 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Texas is making some students wear GPS devices to make sure they’re going to school. There was actually a great GPS technology for doing that, already. It’s called Good Parenting, Stupid.
My Speech To The School Board
Posted in Education, tagged CCSD, cultural criticism, educational reform, family, Las Vegas, school board, school reform on April 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
This what I said to the Clark County School Board at last night’s public meeting: My name is Jamie Huston and I am here to ask you to let me serve as the next superintendent of our school district. I was raised here myself and have two children in school now, with a third starting [...]
Focus and Philosophy of Teaching
Posted in Education, tagged educational standards, effective teaching, mentoring, teaching on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For an award I tried out for a couple of months ago, I had to begin my application binder with a short essay about my “focus and philosophy of teaching.” I didn’t get the award, but I still like what I put together for it. Here’s what I wrote for this section: I. The best teacher [...]
More General Conference Talks About Improving Parenting
Posted in Religion, tagged discipleship, General Conference, parenting on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I noted that five talks in this General Conference were about being more involved parents, and that I suspected today would be an extension of that. There were another five talks today that were predominantly on this subject (though some others mentioned it briefly). These were the talks by Cheryl Lant (three guidelines for spiritually [...]
Two Great Resources On The Atonement
Posted in Religion, tagged Atonement, General Conference, Hugh Nibley, Jeffrey R. Holland, Jesus Christ, Richard G. Scott, scripture study on April 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
During this morning’s session of General Conference, Elder Richard G. Scott of the Twelve Apostles spoke about applying the Atonement of Jesus Christ in our lives and improving our understanding of it; he said near the end of his talk that we should all “establish a personal study plan to better understand that Atonement.” Two things [...]
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