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  • Stations

    I was a big station buff in my formative years. I thought it was the perfect way to do umpteen things at once, to differentiate instruction, shift the class focus to student-centered, and to exploit peer feedback fully.…

  • Essentials

    Now I've known about essential questions since probably my Ed Psych days in college. They were considered, according to my research, the best way to organize an interdisciplinary unit. The whole thing sounded grand at …

  • Sighed projects

    Potential side project topics offered this 9 week grading term: 7Minimum number of side projects to be submitted to avoid automatic failure: 5Students who had reached this number at last check (this morning): 1Approximat…

  • *MY* Autopilot Pen

    Inspired both by the ever-intrepid Happy Chyck AND the ungodly gob of side projects I have unfortunately brought upon myself, I would like to invent a pen that took over for me when I wrote the same thing on these side p…

  • Teaching Candide

    Pre-ReadingMy honors kiddos voted to read Candide. I think the vote was largely due to CB's description of the monkey lovers in Chapter 16, and possibly the pictures. You see, the class set of Candide that inhabits our…

  • Rather

    Dread has followed me out of bed each morning since spring break ended. I have had to send up innumerable prayers simply for "help" between the time I get in my car each morning and the time I trudge back to my room aft…

  • A better bribe than pizza

    We had quite the turnout for the writing test pizza party today! After a rather disappointing show last week of only 12 (only 2 of which were mine, including one who'd already passed), my heart was warmed to see 16 shin…

  • Try, try again

    Cool things happened today. First of all, I passed the discussion leading buck to the kiddos as of Monday, having set up pairs to come up with questions for each night's reading in Nectar in a Sieve. After the first tw…

  • Englightening Logs

    I graded a pile and a half of English II log assignments today, entering them in the computer before Saturday Academy was over, no less! As I read through the rest of the first collected set of silent dialogues, I was c…

  • Daddy Dearest

    If getting the community involved means introducing my kids to my friends and various members of my family, then I'm set. Sr. Pedro, beloved husband o' mine, has shown up a couple of times to talk about things Mexican. …

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