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Kelsie Jul 3, 2025

I woke up early this morning. I am looking forward to the Environmental Science lab at the prison tonight because we finally got approval to take in a piece of astroturf to complete an important "wooly worm" lab. The students will write a lab report based on this. They will have to hand write their lab reports because they do not have access to computers to type them out.
I expect these hardworking students will rock this assignment.
I am proud of them.
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Kelsie Jun 29, 2025

These are what I purchased for my students at the prison. They can only use plastic microscope slides, so we are a little limited on what we can take into the prison. These will make the collection for the students larger, however. I want my students to expand their horizons and knowledge base, and I think these will help. ❤️
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Kelsie Jun 27, 2025

My students at the prison had an amazing time doing their microscopes lab. They were engaged and had so much fun. They kept thanking me and several of them stayed just as late as they could. They told me that they do not have much fun in the prison, but truly did during that lab. Several of them even went outside to pick grass and flower petals to look at. They even found a squished bug on the ground that provided endless fascination.
That filled my heart with happiness.
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Kelsie May 30, 2025

I had so much fun yesterday at the Dual Enrollment class party. They are all graduating this semester. So many intelligent, talented, young people with so much potential.
One of the students even did this drawing on a dry erase board. It is a dragon. I was so impressed!
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Edit: I just got the sweetest email from one of my students thanking me for the class. Me crying? Yes.

Kelsie May 28, 2025

It has been an exhausting past two days, but I feel good about the work I have done.
I am pretty much caught up with my Dual Enrollment class, and they have their last class on Thursday.
I am impressed with my students at the correctional center. One asked me about career advice once he is released. Another student is undergoing cancer treatment and wanted to know what health effects it might have. They feel safe around me, which is important to me.
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Worfrat May 1, 2025

I haven't pulled a tour’s-over-no-need-to-post maneuver; it's been a crazy week at school as we approach the end of year; heading into my 3rd 12-hour day today and being sustained by giving listening to the Spring ‘25 run in short bits while on my 7 minute commute to school. #phish #EducatorLife Small town = no slave to the traffic lights #W00t

Kelsie Apr 30, 2025

My students are awesome.. On Monday, I had a lab with my Dual Enrollment students and they are amazing. I am so impressed with them all. I think they had fun with the lab as well.

Then yesterday, I had the final exam for my Bio 101 class. Those students rocked that exam. I am so happy. One student wrote an adorable thank you drawing on the exam, and another asked if she could volunteer in the lab over the summer.

My heart is happy.
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Kelsie Apr 2, 2025

I played no tricks for April Fool's Day yesterday. But, I did mention something to my Dual Enrollment students which they considered an awful trick.
You see, they have their spring break next week, and I had it badly planned that they would have their exam the day after they get back from said spring break. Well, I offered to have that exam this Friday.
Well, there were immediate rumblings of discontent and I quickly switched it back. Hah, lesson learned.
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Kelsie Mar 31, 2025

So, I have submitted all the documentation for approval to teach this Environmental Science class.
I even submitted a Textbook with a separate document annotating how this Textbook aligns to the Learning Outcomes. From what I have heard from other community college professors, the person requesting this documentation should not even have been the one to do it.
Also, aren't Learning Outcomes for material covered in the class, not simply the text? Frustrated.
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