This is my confession...

All right, I have kept my secret long enough, it is time for me to just come out and say...I am not very good at grammar. To clarify, I am not horrible at grammar, but I wish I were better. It is a growth mindset thing for me that I know I will improve the more I get an opportunity to write. It feels so freeing getting that off my chest. I am making a little joke of it, but in all sincerity, I do feel more free getting that out there. I really hope that I can start blogging much more and I think my biggest issue over the past 8 months and only blogging 3 times has been my concern about having to spend extreme amounts of time making sure that my blogs were grammatically error free. For my graduate classes, I have my wife read over most of my writing before I turn them in, but I would hate to burn her out on reading my bi-weekly blogs. I have set a goal for myself to blog every third day...we will see how I do on achieving this goal. Life is definitely starting to pick up here shortly. Tonight we start our football camp and football will be going for the next three months, my grad classes will start up again on August 20th, and finally as I sit here, school will start in 19 days. (I know that was a long sentence and I hope I punctuated it correctly) Soooooo without any further ado, be prepared for more material coming from Michael D. Kline. Thanks.

SMR

How has summer gone so quickly? As a student, I felt like summer lasted forever. As a teacher, I feel like summer lasts about 3 weeks in length. It is hard to believe that it is already July 14th and less than a month before teachers report back to school. Having said all of this, I have always been a person that has enjoyed school. This is why I became a teacher. (I am guessing the fact that it is football season helps to ease me back into the swing of school as well.) I think this could make a great research question. What percentage of students genuinely enjoy school? Does this number vary depending upon the grade level of the students? What can teachers do to increase this number of students who enjoy school? I will let you know when I have done my research and have some answers. Goodnight.