While I haven't had the pleasure of enjoying a COMPLETELY school-free winter break (see previous posts about what has kept me busy), I h...

Wow.  That's all I can say about this book.  Well, almost all...I've never been a person of few words! ;)  Another Battle of the Bo...

While there are about a million and a half things I would like to improve on in my teaching, my management, and in the students' learni...

Today I finally started doing a little planning for after break (although the grading is still untouched...) and looking at my lesson plan t...

I think my Christmas presents this year really represent the extent to which teaching has consumed my life.  Highlights among the gifts: Fa...

Let me recap the past 2 days...sleep, sleep, reading, sleep, movie watching, reading, more sleep, more movies... Today alone I watched 3 m...

Last week, I gave one of my very mature students Lois Lowry's The Giver (one of my all-time favorite books).  Nothing makes me smile m...

Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead, or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sit...

"Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." -Erica Jong, author ...

Today was a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day.