Feb 22
Haven’t written a post in a while – most of the time I feel like I really don’t have much to write about. I think I’m probably too critical of my own ideas. Everyone else seems to have such great ideas and resources that I often think… “someone else has probably posted about that already” …
Aug 15
Its truly hard to believe that I’ve been teaching for 32 years. First days still feel like those first days with the crazy school dream the night before and the excitement and apprehension before classes begin. I’m sure this year will be no different. You’d also think that, after 32 years, I’d have this first …
Apr 14
I have been very lazy about blogging this year – even though I promised myself I would be better. I seem to never feel that what I’m doing or the experience I’m having is really that interesting or different. Lately though, I have run across a couple of activities that I found particularly successful for …
Oct 25
Anyone remember the $25,000 pyramid? That show where one person faces the board of words or phrases and has to describe them well enough for the other person (facing away) to say the word. This lesson is similar to that idea – only with graphs of functions! And yes, it was just as fun!! This …
Sep 10
Ok… I’ve fallen off the “one blog post a week” bandwagon but hope to jump back on this weekend! In the meantime, I’ve had several folks ask for these so I thought would go ahead and post them. These were definitely a collaborative effort between several teachers at my school over several years (including Kate …
Aug 22
Our pre-week activities ended this Tuesday and kids came back on Wednesday! Yes, finally kids on Wednesday! We run a mixed schedule of blocks and singles so this week we came back to two blocks with a singleton day on Friday. The blocks allow us to run an “advisory” of sorts that we call “Black …
Aug 17
So I recently blogged… mainly because my head was too full of things I couldn’t sort out but also because Annie Fetter (@MFAnnie) pushed me a little. Then, without thinking about it much, I said – OUT LOUD on twitter – that I was going to blog once a week. What was I thinking? So… …
Aug 05
Seems I only post once a year these days! At any rate… here’s where my mind is going right now. Hoping that writing it down will help my mind focus a bit more! I am quite anxious for thoughts, comments and ideas – so please feel free!! You all are my PLC! I’m depending …
Jul 04
Full disclosure – this is a long post (even though I rewrote it to try to make it shorter!) Much of it is me thinking out loud with some questions/thoughts at the end. Standards Based Grading as its looked for me so far…. Year 1 – Used in my Algebra 1 class. The learning targets …
