Laws of Gravity

The class is success seminar. It's basically a class for social-emotional learning. In theory, it's a great idea. Pretty much the en...

Since it's summer, I have no new subbing stories. So, time for the wayback files for #ThrowbackThursday. This one was originally posted ...

It was the first full week of school. I am covering a "vacant class" until they are able to bring in a teacher for the rest of...

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...

I was covering for a special ed. teacher, co-teaching several periods. 4th period I was in an 8th grade English class. The regular ed. te...

Freshman English. It was an honors class (read: advanced). The teacher left them an article to read and annotate. There were questions to...

Math class at the continuation high school. They all work at their own pace on a program that takes them through whichever course they...

This week for #ThrowbackThursday is a reminder why I do not like to cover opportunity classes. These are the classes that students end up in...

It was Friday at the continuation high school. They had the usual assignment--finish any unfinished work from the week. Ms. M. gave me a lis...

We had been in class for maybe 10 minutes and I was done with Kenneth. Already, he had been out of his seat and roaming the room three times...

5th period geography. 9th graders. First, I collected their warm ups from the week. (Many teachers assign a quick question or two for the ...

In 8th grade, the students take physical science. It's the end of the year, so it's time for the astronomy unit. The classes had que...

Friday was a bit on the crazy side. I went into the school expecting that. It was International Day and the day before spring break. Norm...

I finally knew about an assignment in advance.  7th grade core (that's the same group for two periods--one period of English and one per...

Today I had a 7th grade math class (pre-algebra).  After they did their warm-up and we had some time to discuss their homework (fractions), ...

On both Tuesday and Wednesday, after Santiago finished his work, he would go and get paper.  He then constructed some flower from it.  It wa...

Yesterday 's two students today grew to five.  Only Santiago returned.  Carlos was mysteriously absent.  And the dynamics of the room co...

Today I was in to cover an 8th grade English class.  The 8th graders had their promotion today. First, some background: Layer one: the s...

Today the final project was due in the two periods of economics that the student teacher runs.  It was a video assignment.  The kiddos had a...