![]() ![]() Add to this that I was slowly realizing I liked boys the way I was supposed to like girls. One spring, I knew everyone in my class and loved my 6th grade teacher, and that Fall I didn’t know anyone, including my teachers.Īdd to this that my parents were in the middle of a divorce. No one told me what it would be like, and no one prepared me. I was confronted with weird concepts like home room and lockers (and combination locks) and not walking in a neat line to lunch and not having recess. I had to make sense out of graduation requirements. In middle school, I had to navigate multiple classrooms and multiple teachers. ![]() I had loved school in my earlier years, but middle school was different. My mother would drop me at the south door of the school and no sooner had she pulled away than I walked out the north door. ![]() You see, as soon as I entered the seventh grade, I started skipping classes. I would not work where I work today, in the Learning Design and Technology program at CU Denver nor would I be standing here. I may have tried college, but I doubt it. ![]() I would have failed out of middle school, and most likely missed high school altogether. I owe my entire academic life to Lois English. I barely had any idea who the principal was, in fact, aside from his occasional red-cheeked stroll through the main hallway-a hallway that Ms. I always wondered why she wasn’t the principal instead of the vice principal. Not that she was threatening-she never seemed cross just as she never seemed jolly-only that she was… formidable. She wasn’t quick to smile, and her presence demanded a quiet like that of the hush in a library. She appeared to everyone as a formidable educator, buttoned up in a smart suit jacket and matching skirt, blond hair put up on top of her head so that, when she walked down the hall or stood before you, you had no choice but to notice she towered over most students. Lois English was the vice principal at my middle school. On December 3rd, 2020, I was invited to deliver a plenary talk at the OEB Global online event out of Berlin, Germany. ![]()
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