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Tomorrow is the start of our UIL district meet. I’m getting so psyched for my debate team and they are all leaving next year and they are all AWESOME DUDES that I will miss A WHOLE BUNCH. One of them is going to college in ALASKA next year. The other two are going to RIVAL…
read more »I might’ve mentioned this before, but I am serving as my campus’ UIL coordinator this year which means I get the distinct pleasure of arranging all of our academic competitions. Coaching academic events is not wholly unlike coaching athletics in that you place your kids into a zero-sum competitive environment. It is, however, a different…
read more »One of the joys and privileges of teaching high school is having the opportunity to coach students you might not see in your own classrooms. Athletics gets all the local press, but the academic events are where the action is. Many of the schools that we serve have a palpable shortage of teachers willing to…
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