Laws of Gravity

Tuesday. High school art, second period.  They're really cracking down on cell phones, and so Ms. G had asked me to make sure to collect...

Tuesday. Fifth period. It was the independent work portion of the period. I had gone over some problems (we've started the probability u...

I collect teachers' cell phone numbers. Nowadays, they'll leave the number in the lesson plan "just in case". I don't ...

When I checked in for the day, the school's secretary didn't hand me the usual paperwork. Usually I get a temporary log in for the s...

Last Friday I ended up covering the eighth grade English class of the department chair (the one who gave me lesson plans for the first co...

Earth Science. Mostly freshmen, but there were sophomores, juniors, and seniors mixed in. I had been warned going in that they could be a...

"I didn't charge it last night, because I'd rather have it dead if I have to give it up." Second period. It was Tuesd...

It's nearing the end of the year. The 7th grade history students had been given a year-long project at the beginning of the school ye...

It was Friday in the 12th grade English class at the continuation high school. Since most of the kiddos who end up at this school aren...

It was the third time in two weeks that I'd covered the 11th grade English class at the continuation high school. This day, they were...

Um, yeah, so I'm totally cheating today. The girl in the story--not named Ximena. Although, I do generally change students' names...

Friday. I had a very small, very well-behaved ELL class. (ELL stands for English language learners, meaning that they're fairly new t...

In the chaos of passing period, I wasn't sure from where the blaring music came. Someone walking in playing music loudly via a speake...

When given the option of several teachers, I pick the teacher who has the calculus class. Because easy. These are the kiddos that don...

How much should a sub tell the class about a teacher's absence? Most of the time this is a non-issue. I don't know where the te...

Business math. This is a class filled with juniors and seniors who need an extra year of math but don't want to take a class like alg...

7th grade world history. They were working on a project about China. A student asked if he could look something up on his phone. He nee...

I warned the class about cell phones. They are supposed to be put away and silenced so that the students are not tempted to use them duri...

It was a senior English class. The assignment was a group thing. They were to write a rhetorical précis based on some reading they had done...