It was a Friday, and it was raining…
Horrible, No Good Teaching Day, aka Advice for New Teachers
Teacher Jackpot
This morning I volunteered in my daughter’s 3rd grade classroom and also spent a few minutes in my son’s 2nd grade classroom. It was the first chance I’d had to see their classrooms in action. Last year I wrote about
Brain Training
I love the idea of being able to play games to make me smarter. I’ve tried a number of different apps and for a while was completely hooked on Sudoku. My all-time favorite, though, was a game on CD-ROM I
Ghost of Computers Past
A computer’s ghost is haunting the technology in my new home office. I’m convinced that a long time ago, probably on a dark and stormy night, a computer was killed in that room, and now it seeks revenge on every piece of
Students, All Grown Up
At the end of every school year, I used to wish that I had a magic crystal ball that would allow me to see into the future so that I could know how my students would turn out, who they
Pack Rat Teacher
I’m moving into a new house at the end of May. I’m ridiculously excited about the new house; we’ve been in a rental since last summer, so I can’t wait to own a house and be able to make it