Potpourri

• I've been having a lot of trouble with one particular kindergarten class. They are a gigantic handful for me and the other specialist teachers. I try my best to keep class engaging, and follow through with the classroom teacher's discipline system, including rewards, but am still feeling at a loss. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them!
• I've been listening to pod-casts on my way home. Some interesting ones talked about Arabic music and 20th Century American music. The music education pod-casts were too short!
• Today one of the teachers I work with was accused of shaking a student while she was working with a small reading group. The music teacher and I were both in the room when the alleged shaking happened (it didn't). She was so upset by the accusation, and it's frustrating that this student is not going to have reading intervention anymore because his mom chose to believe him. More troubling is how this fourth grader has learned to lie about being abused to get out of having extra work.