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Daily 153: Talk About Tuesday - Visitor Observer

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Summary

Visitor touring different Sudbury schools observed school meeting. No JC (case dropped). Josh back from leave, took on clerkships including school meeting clerk - speaker back to backup role. Discussed self-assessed transcript notion for translating student activities. Students demonstrating parallel parking with Phil's car (no damage). Warm under tent. Talk About Tuesday recorded on math.

Transcript

0:00 Welcome to ANI In the Air, Under the Tent, and Around Baltimore, your daily podcast briefing of all the goings on, ins and rounds, arts and ideas, and survey school.
0:08 So today is Tuesday. We had school meeting. We actually had a visitor today just hanging out outside, of course, because of COVID, but he was here to observe how our school functions.
0:24 He's been touring around different survey schools, and he has an interest in how they run and how things work and so forth.
0:34 And so he got to witness our school meeting. Didn't get to witness a JC, almost. We called a JC team out, but the one case we had, the person wrote it up wanted it dropped, so there was no JC.
0:51 But there was a school meeting, and it was a good debate. Josh, the staff, has now gotten several clerkships back thanks to his return from his leave of absence, and he actually also stepped up to be a school meeting clerk.
1:09 So at this point in time, we've got a student doing JC and someone not me doing school meetings, so I'm back to my backup role, which I'm very happy about.
1:20 What else? Oh, we also discussed in school meeting the self-assessed transcript notion that it was just a discussion, no actual action, but the idea is having some kind of framework for students to be able to translate what they've done here into something that people out there can understand.
1:49 So we'll see how much that goes. I'm hoping some people will try it out so we can see exactly how hard or how useful it might be based on actual examples.
2:06 What else? Oh yes, I got to witness a couple of school meeting members demonstrating how to parallel park. I was touching a go there for Phil's car a bit. Phil doesn't know, but there were no cars harmed in the experience. I found it amusing.
2:34 What else? Usual activities outside. It was a little hot. It's going to be a bit warm under the tent, we can already tell. Obviously much cooler than it would be in the sun, but still kind of hot.
2:53 It is talking about Tuesday, so I have already recorded a little thing on math, kind of right and wrong answers and the difficulty of teaching mathematics and why I think our schooling is an appropriate alternative to that.
3:15 Alright, well that's enough for today. Have a good one and I will see you when I see you.