I have found more and more that finding a teaching job is a very hard task. I started applying though OLAS, NY state's online system for hiring/applying for teaching jobs, in February. Yet I have heard back from no one. A select few schools at least acknowledge they have received your application, but from most you get nothing. No acknowledgment your application was received, or notice that the position was filled.
I know that a lot of it is who you know. Where you have connections. But I am still here, after 60+ applications, hoping to hear back from someone.
I need to stop making excuses like that the budgets are getting voted on in May, or that the process of BOCES, to district, to superintendent, to principal is what is holding it up.
All in all, I wait, at the mercy of New York State. I wait to hear if I will have a job in the fall.
I have been told that teachers received jobs in May, in June, even two days before school started in September.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
the stars of the sea
While vacationing on the Maldives Islands, Taiwanese photographer Will Ho stumbled onto an incredible stretch of beach covered in millions of bioluminescent phytoplankton. These tiny organisms glow similarly to fireflies and tend to emit light when stressed, such as when waves crash or when they are otherwise agitated. While the phenomenon and its chemical mechanisms have been known for some time, biologists have only recently began to understand the reasons behind it. You can see a few more of Ho’s photographs over on Flickr.
Heather Hansen
Artist Heather Hansen uses her body movement to form charcoal drawings.
"Her body contorts into carefully choreographed gestures as her writing implements grate across the floor, the long trails resulting in a permanent recording of her physical movements. Part dance and part performance art, the kinetic drawings are a way for Hansen to merge her love for visual art and dance into a unified artform. The final symmetrical patterns that emerge in each pieces are reminiscent of a Rorschach test, or perhaps cycles found in nature." -Colossal Art and Visual Culture
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