Meadsnovels: Recent Episodes
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This episode is also available as a blog post: http://meadnovels.com/2021/03/22/health-education-for-junior-high-and-high-school-in-america-2021/
Health Education is a constantly changing course for Junior and Senior High students as well as College students. The recent pandemic has taught us that Viruses are the danger in the present and future. We must learn how to prevent them and how to treat them as well.
Polio and small pox seem like distant diseases, but at one time they killed thousands of people. Learning about these disease will help students prepare for future diseases.
Health Education is about living properly and not taking things for granted. Education is the key to learning.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://meadnovels.com/2021/02/02/dont-be-square-2/
This is a movie script about my days teaching at Kakiat Junior High in Spring Valley, New York in the East Ramapo Central School District.
John Carucci, Rick Knapp and Pelham Mead are the three lead male teachers in this comedy and drama movie script about teaching in the 1960's and 1970's with all the social movements, the Anti-war effort by students, the Drug abuse era, the free love era, the Civil Rights Era, and the stresses brought on by administrators in politics with teachers. John was a funny PA announcer each morning at Kakiat JHS and also a Social Studies teacher and Football coach. He was everything to everyone and a full hearted laugh. Rick Knapp from Syracuse Univ. was a college baseball player and athlete. Rick was competitive in everything he did and a great friend for 30 plus years. Together He and I ran the Kakiat JHS Ski club for over 20 years, skiing every Friday night after school.
The humor is in the day to day events that occurred in those days and you will see.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://meadnovels.com/2021/04/01/my-years-at-the-college-of-mount-saint-vincent-as-director-of-the-teacher-learner-center-and-coordinator-of-the-title-v-federal-grant-for-1-1-million/