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Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Yule Blog Prompt #10: A Look Back at My Professional Growth from 2021 3. Links to Other Challenge Participants 4. Calendar Reform: 9-Day Calendars 5. Cheng's  Art of Logic in an Illogical World , Chapter 9 6. Conclusion Introduction Today is New Year's Adam -- the day before New Year's Eve. I often use the word "Adam" (the day before an Eve) when a Sunday holiday is celebrated at a school on a Friday. (For example, this year we had Pi Day Adam on Friday, March 12th and Halloween Adam on Friday, October 29th.) Also, yesterday I received my booster shot for the Moderna vaccine. It was exactly seven months after I got my second shot of Moderna. Yule Blog Prompt #10: A Look Back at My Professional Growth from 2021 How much have I grown as a teacher this year? Well, the answer is that I've grown plenty -- after all, I began 2021 having had only one year of experience as a teacher (and I didn't even complete that one year), a...

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Yule Blog Prompt #8: A Tool or Strategy from 2021 That I Will Continue to Use in the Future 3. Calendar Reform: 7-Day Calendars 4. Cheng's  Art of Logic in an Illogical World , Chapter 8 5. Conclusion Introduction Today is the third day of Kwanzaa, a holiday celebrated by African-Americans. Five years ago, I worked at a majority-black charter school, and one girl there participated in a Kwanzaa pageant. In her honor, I've continued to label one of my posts between Christmas and New Year's as the "Kwanzaa post" in every year since I met her. But hold on -- now I'm working at a majority-Hispanic high school, and as the Ethnostats teacher, I need to honor the students in my current classroom. Perhaps it's time for me to retire the name "Kwanzaa post" and focus on a holiday that my students celebrate. Most Hispanics are Catholic, and on the Catholic Calendar, today is "Holy Innocents Day," ( Dia de los S...