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As my readers may know, my students are planning for the future of the human species. This year, as I have described in an earlier post, I am dedicating much of the year to Project-Based Learning and trying to ...

I had almost forgotten what it felt like to wait with anticipation for the name of my teacher to be posted on a school window. This year, however, I waited for the first time by the side of my ...

For those of you who don't read my Edutopia blog, I just wanted to put this particular post on your radar.  As a teacher in a school that has seen tremendous administrative turnover in the last few years, I thought ...

I was at a wedding two weeks ago where someone asked me what I did for a living. “I’m a teacher,” I replied. “Ohhhhh, teeeeeching,” he said knowingly. “Must be nice to have so much time off. Out ...

Introduction Handout with expectations and grading procedures. Check. Publishing Release Form. Check. PG-13 Video/Clip Release Form to cover me for the whole school year. Check. Set up YouTube Channel even though I have no idea how to use it yet. ...

One of the things that many people don’t know about me is that, while I wear the costume of a tech savvy teacher, I’m really tech tentative at heart. In other words, I so recently became a convert to using ...

Just a few thoughts before all hell breaks loose over here in Los Angeles. First of all, I woke up this morning wondering if the closure of the 405 freeway was going to be like the staged Anthrax scare ...

I owe my readers a mea culpa for the last month or so, and I wanted to let you in on a little of what's been going on with me both personally and professionally. No worries, however, I'll be ...

I recently had our middle school Parent/Teacher conferences, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that 99% of my students (most of whom are Title I) have a computer in the home. However, there was absolutely no oversight ...

My OBGYN was running about 45 minutes late. I had no cell phone reception at the hospital and I had already read through the latest Entertainment Weekly, so I got out some paper and pen and started planning out ...