Laws of Gravity

Tuesday. Eighth grade math, sixth period.  They had various assignments in Google Classroom. One was notes. The teacher had created a video ...

Last Wednesday I was back at the continuation high school. English. They were studying the Hero's Journey .  Well, they were supposed to...

Some things never happened while I was working on campus. Monday. I was covering a tenth grade English class. They were working on vocabular...

Yesterday I blogged about screaming siblings in the background while students were reading over a Google Meet. That was not the only distrac...

For the last two and a half weeks before the end of the calendar year, I am covering a social studies class, special ed. Their assignments h...

Monday at the continuation high school. They had a video. (This was the Monday before the election, so it was about the candidates.)   First...

The week before winter break was finals week. Due to a teacher taking advantage of the break to recover from surgery, I got to work it. ...

Eighth grade math. It was a team taught class, so I spent the day in support mode. But it's also how I learned about the new toy they...

Yesterday, I mentioned the sleeper is at the continuation high school. Of course, I had him in class. And, of course, he wasn't doin...

Seventh grade science. It's nearing the end of the year, so they were working on a major project--The Body Book. (It's a review...

Eighth grade English. It was the class that stole my clock . On a Friday. With an assembly scheduled . Basically, I was doomed from the...

When I called ahead for subbing assignments, I was offered this middle school special ed math class for two days. After the time I had wi...

Friday. Middle school. Fundamentals of engineering. Their assignment was to sketch out an alphabet that looked roughly like this: ...

Advanced eighth grade English. So, I figured "the good kids" and no problems, right? Ah, not so fast... Third period. They ha...

The lesson plan warned that the Earth science classes were "immature". That's putting it mildly... The teacher had left e...

It was the 3rd time I'd covered the advanced ELD class at the middle school in four weeks. 5th period was... challenging... The te...

7th grade science. The teacher had a meeting for the last period of the day, so I came in to cover on my prep period. As he was on his wa...

It happens in middle school classrooms with alarming regularity. Someone farted. You know how you react when that happens in your vicin...

It was Thursday (or day four) of my week in the 11th grade English class. Period 4 was the creative writing group. Like many English te...

It was two days before their winter break. I had an 8th grade English class (with Blaine !). And they were... well... kind of how you...