Adventures with the Lower Level

As many of you know, I have struggled to find good and valid ways to assess the kids in my classes. And if you have any twitter presence at ...

Some of you know how this year has been a struggle for me. Just getting through all the new red tape this year is enough to crush anyone...

So Frank tweeted out a post by Paul . Now, coming from Frank, I was expecting a link to some amazing new teacher with some great idea I co...

For the last couple days, I have been trekking around the Badlands National Park with Don Duggan-Haas as a part of the ReaL Earth Inquiry ...

So the other day, my nephew graduated from Flint Hills Technical College . I was only planning on paying attention as he walked across becau...

I apologize. I need somewhere to put this or I simply might not make it through my day. I am sitting here in the middle of the night, ha...

For the second day in a row, we have not had class during second hour. Three hours worth of class time gone. Yesterday, the sophomores too...

Yesterday* on Twitter, Adam asked the question. How do we teach students it is okay to fail. Can we set up something? #edchat — Adam Tayl...

Finally, this week is over. Warning: Depressing Post Ahead I have had a few of you email me about how to handle situations like this wi...

I'm going through something of a mid-career crisis right now. It's not that I don't still love my job, I do. I just feel like I ...

During my seminar, students are not allowed to go anywhere if they are failing a class. Yesterday I sent a student to a teacher whose geog...

Warning: Rant ahead. We have a teacher in our Modeling group who has been grating on my nerves for two years now*. His voice is a constant...

Several years ago, I was inexplicably talked into taking on the job of coaching cross country. I was a sprinter in high school and college, ...

I have a student in one of my classes who is kind of hard to like. Now, I can count on one hand the number of students over the years that...

I follow quite a lot of blogs. I mean a lot. I'm not even sure I can count that high. A while back, I accidentally discovered the math...

I have to thank the Crazy Teacher Lady for this term. It's something I have been trying to pin down and couldn't seem to put into w...

I was unofficially reprimanded today. I have a student who has had a rough year. I have come to know her well from several years of being ...

Today was one of the most stressful days I've had in quite awhile. Today I gave my state physical science test to our juniors and some...

I covered for our art teacher during my plan today. I always like going into other classrooms to see how the kids act in a different environ...

...they become completely different people. I did a post-test today as part of ASU's monitoring of the Modeling curriculum. The secon...