Laws of Gravity

Signs I've been subbing too long: When I got the keys for the day, the secretary told me that Mr. J was in room 908. But I knew that was...

Tuesday. Eighth grade U.S. history, fourth period.  Mr. R, who was on campus at some meeting or other, told me that his fourth period class ...

Monday of the last week of school. Eighth grade English, co-taught. Fourth period.  The eighth graders were done . Their grades had been sub...

Whenever I find myself dealing with a challenging class, the teacher usually says something about them being "good kids". Only onc...

If I commented on your blog last week, I apologize. I wasn't entirely mentally there. It was a long, hard week in the eighth grade succe...

I caught a week-long assignment in an eighth grade success class . And it was as bad as I anticipated. Oh well.  Ms. T left me a packet of i...

Thursday. Eighth grade math, special day class. Eighth period.  To start every class, Mr. R has them do "Good Things". This is spe...

Wednesday. Eighth grade English, co-taught. Seventh period. I was in for Mr. S, the special ed teacher. Ms. R, the general ed teacher, was p...

While I was happy to work, I kind of was dreading the day.  Friday. Eighth grade science.  Science is my jam, but eighth graders... My tag f...

Thursday. Eighth grade math, special ed. Third period. It was a complete-the-online-assignment day, and half the class said they were alread...

Thursday. Eighth grade English, co-taught.  I was expecting a two sub day, but nope, Ms. C was there, like the last time I covered this clas...

Wednesday. I was expecting to cover eighth grade math only to discover once I got there that the assignment had been cancelled. Sigh. But, b...

"Could you cover a sixth period..." Wednesday. Sixth period. Eighth grade English, co-taught. Which meant that the general ed teac...

Thursday. Eighth grade English.  I had covered this about a month ago (and I have covered Ms. R's class many, many times), so I knew wh...

Wednesday. Eighth grade English, seventh period.  When I left the art class, I didn't say "goodbye" to them. I said, "see...

Wednesday. Eighth grade science. In a classroom directly across from that art class I just left.  Several of the students had been in the ar...

Now that I'm entirely free of that vacant art class (as it's no longer vacant), I went back to working at the whims of the subbing a...

Tuesday. Eighth grade U.S. history.  But, um, well, the eighth graders were done. It was technically finals day, but not for eighth graders....

Friday. Integrated math I, eighth grade (read: the advanced group).  The day's assignment had them taking a survey online, then completi...

Tuesday, fifth period.  The period goes by a couple names. Conference. Prep. It's the period I have off from students.  So, I was sittin...