Laws of Gravity

I'm doing a long term subbing thing, so therefore grades must be due.  It was the middle of class when the email popped up. "Oh, yo...

Last week we started our annual state testing. (This week we'll finish it up.) I explained the schedule on Wednesday . As I mentioned ye...

Wednesday. Fourth period.  Tyson strode in the room, upset. "You told me not to worry. You told me I wouldn't get an F."  Tyso...

I started a new long term assignment on Wednesday. There are a few things that I have to do right off the bat with these assignments. Get ke...

A sub credential only allows me to cover one class for up to thirty days. This was extended to sixty days the last couple of years , because...

These middle schoolers... There's this boy who asked to go by K3 in class (so since that's anonymous enough, I'll use it here). ...

A little over a week ago, I got an email from a parent. She was concerned that her student had an F in the class, and could her student make...

Last week I mentioned the emails from students are starting . Not that there's anything wrong with that. I told the students to let me k...

It was week three in Mr. J's classes, and I'm starting to get my feet under me. That means that certain things I may not have notice...

It was the second week of my new long-term assignment, and I spent much of it getting their grades caught up. For much of the month of Febru...

Back in October, I did a co-teaching day in a math class . I covered for the special ed teacher. The general ed teacher, Mr. J, talked of le...

A couple weeks ago, Mr. B left a message for his students in the Google Classroom. The last day to turn in late work was the Friday before f...

The start of this new long-term assignment has gone pretty smoothly. The classes are pretty mellow. There's an instructional aide to clu...

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...

One of the things I get to do while doing a "long term" assignment is the grading. (I'm only in this class for three weeks, bu...

"I think I'm all caught up..." I didn't say it out loud, but the universe obviously heard me. And laughed. Tuesday. Fourth...

When I talked to Mrs. B before she went on leave, she told me she intended to do the grading while she was out. But the previous Friday, in ...

For summer school, we weren't assigning grades. We teachers got to write little paragraphs about each student that then went home on a l...

On the penultimate day of summer school, I gave the students a figure-out-your-grade assignment. I wanted them to spend some time looking at...

One of the things that subs don't do much of is grading papers. And I'm glad of that. I'm always sure the kiddos are going to ca...