Last Day
Went to Starbucks for coffee and then found Mary Kay sitting out front of Carman so we had a nice chat on the bench in the cool morning air. We then all walked over to Camille's for one last breakfast. I just had a blueberry muffin. Couldn;t bring myself to have the blueberry pancakes after all that meat last night.
Breakout 3: 9-9:45
The Big Mo
I didn't sweat it much but did have a keynote ready to go. What I finally decided to do was put up the post-it poster paper, divide them into groups of three and have them brain storm answers to the questions: What do you do to motivate your staff and what motivates you? The insight and discussion was great and we had ten groups so it took the full time! I never got past the first slide. I think I had well over 30.
At 10 my yearbook leadership group came back to me and we spent most of the time talking about creating a staff manual. I had them work on their calendars, deciding exactly what they were going to teach for the first several weeks. Then I had them write their staff letter. We also discussed what should be put in the style guide. Rebecca came in and we did the class evaluation thing. I later discussed with them what they felt worked and what could be improved and it seemed that they were pretty satisfied.
We cleaned the room and some helped me carry my stuff up to room 503 and I took the rest up.
Editorial Leadership - Yearbook Awards
Outstanding Yearbook Journalist
Anna Dukhovich Newton North
Outstanding Yearbook Writing
Sandra Brooks Emma Willard
Maestro Award
Cali Pantazis Bronx Science
Teresa Gianotti Friends Academy
Jenny Zhao Newton North
Outstanding Yearbook Layout
Jocelyn Chuang Bronx Science
School Theme Award
Emma Willard
Coral Shores
The award ceremony went well. Although the newspaper folks give a TON of awards and they get away with using much less serious names-especially Bobby Hawthorne. (The Bend and Snap Award)
Ed also had a interesting slide show and audio of a speech that Eisenhower gave at the CSPA luncheon in 1948(?) when he was the president of Columbia. It was very interesting but a strange choice for the last word of the workshop.
We checked out and Crystal and I went down to the Penn Station area. We walked to a place where she loved the raspberry coffee. I guess she and Therese had stayed nearby on one of their trips. We then decided to walk to B and H to check it out. We walked past the Empire State Building, but by the time we got to B and H it was closed because to it was close to shabbat.
We walked up ninth through Hell's Kitchen then over on 42nd and up to 50th. Crystal wanted to go the the American Craftsman store so we hand to walk a bit more to find it. It was close to 2:30 by the time we got on a train back to Columbia. Once we were back on the westside we had lunch at Amir's then a treat at Pinkberry. Pinkberry is this tart yogurt stuff that you add toping to. Not bad I would go there again.
I was starting to get antsy to get going so we got back to Carman, gathered our stuff and made it back to Broadway to catch a cab. Just like happened to Pete a couple of years ago, no cabs were stopping. One finally did stop and I asked him why he wouldn't take us and he said it was because of the shift change at five. A couple of gypsy cabs had slowed but I wasn't ready to go there yet. We decided to split up and work both sides of the street. We were ready to go there in just a few minutes so when a gypsy stopped again we got it. He would charge us $50 and give us a receipt, so we went for it. It was the usual crazy drive through Harlem to get on the Triborough bridge , but we made it and actually got to JFK in just about an hour in pretty heavy traffic. Not to worry. I gave him $65 and we were all set.
Check in went fine but I had go through that extra security again (there were multiple SSSS on my boarding pass), but even that turned out to be no big deal. Crystal got set up with jetBlue wireless and then I trundled off to catch my plane at about 7. As usual we were late getting on board and then we didn't get off for about an hour and a half. Still waiting to leave JFK on time. The flight was uneventful except I did sit next to the newspaper girl from Center and we did have an empty seat in between us. I think we arrived right around 12.
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