Laws of Gravity

And so, I ended the school year not far from where it began . Literally. I started the school year in room 906 and ended it in room 915. (Bo...

The Thursday before spring break. Tenth grade English. Third period.  The assignment: they were working on "independent projects"....

Tuesday. Fourth period integrated math two (read: geometry/sophomore math).  I was in for Ms. L all week, and I was expecting to find Mr. J....

( If you haven't seen my Monday post, you probably should. It's here .) Wednesday. Eighth grade U.S. history, fourth period.  I gene...

Note: You may have heard my area has been hit with multiple wild fires. As of now (Thursday night), my immediate area is safe. The fires are...

I've been doing a lot of co-teaching lately. That is, I've been covering in classes where there are two teachers, either covering th...

Monday found me back on the day-to-day subbing grind. I got to cover high school biology.  And... It was kind of a boring day, really. This,...

It's Thanksgiving break. I have no school this week. So, per my usual routine, last week's events will appear next week when I'm...

The long-term special ed social studies class I'm covering is all juniors and seniors. And I haven't had any major behavior issues s...

Wednesday was my last day in the English 9 classes.  When I began the classes (oh so long ago--3 1/2 weeks prior) I had requested and receiv...

Monday. Fifth period accounting.  They were half doing the assignment, half talking about random stuff.  The phone rang. It was the attendan...

Friday, St. Patrick's Day. It was a minimum day for the end of the quarter.  (In 2020, the last day of the third quarter was the last da...

On Tuesday for my extra period assignment, I was sent to an English class that I had covered before . But luckily it wasn't for the peri...

Eighth grade English. Fifth period. And I was confused.  Class had barely started when a student asked me for a restroom pass. I checked the...

Tuesday. I was covering the social studies classes at the continuation high school. Fifth period. I was walking the room, asking students th...

Last Monday I had this email exchange with the school secretary who is also the attendance clerk. (It's a small school. All the clerking...

On Wednesday, Eddy informed me that he wasn't going to be at school the next day.  So, on Thursday I was not surprised that he was absen...

Students are creatures of habit. They like their routines. Once something has been established, like requiring them to wipe down their desks...

The first day back from winter break, I was called to cover middle school choir. Because of course.  The lesson plan had them looking up tra...

Two weeks ago Wednesday I started covering a special ed. social studies class. The teacher was going to be out for the rest of the calendar ...