Laws of Gravity

Tuesday. Film Studies. Seventh period.  When I walked in the classroom first thing in the morning, there was a note projected on the screen....

Friday. Halloween. Seventh grade science... (If anyone recalls how I started last school year--long term for a maternity leave for a seventh...

So, um, yeah. Summer school...  I was not expecting to work, but when a gig popped up in the app, I jumped on it. The adult transition cente...

I finally got into the new building! At one of the schools I work at, they just opened a new STEAM building. They started talking about this...

Towards the end of the day, I like to muse aloud about what I'm thinking for the plans for the next school day. It was Thursday afternoo...

First thing after the students arrive for the day, we do "calendar". I have turned this into almost an hour and a half of activiti...

It had been a long week. And Friday came along to make the week even longer...  We had two students with diarrhea (which is worse when the s...

It's been a couple years since I was last at the adult transition center . After finishing up the long term geography/economics class, i...

The topic for the day was writing a summary, so for the seventh graders' warm up, they were to write a summary of their favorite movi...

"Friday! It's movie day!" Last block of the day. Second semester eleventh grade English. Mr. G had been out Thursday as...

Happy Thanksgiving. For #ThrowbackThursday, I'm revisiting a post from November 18, 2010 . It was Turkey Day at the continuation hi...

It's testing time. While not all classes test, the whole school was on block schedule to accommodate those that do. For me, this mean...

It was the Friday before spring break. I had an Earth Science class. And I was dreading it. (This is the class for freshmen who didn'...

12th grade government. The teacher left them a movie, and then she did the genius thing of leaving them a "questionnaire" for a...

I mentioned yesterday that I got to administer finals to a 9th grade English class. The teacher also taught honors classes. If you're...

8th grade U.S. history. For a week. The teacher was chaperoning the annual Washington, D.C. trip. His lesson plans were genius. For hal...

12th grade English at the continuation high school. They had a movie. (They had just finished reading Night , and this was a companion mo...

When I got the assignment the week prior, the sub caller said that the teacher wanted to talk to me. So, I called him. And I learned that...

It was one of those weeks where nothing exciting happened. Well, nothing worth blogging about. So, here it is, Friday. And that means I s...

A week ago we had Thanksgiving. A week before that was the continuation high school's annual Turkey Day . They changed things up a bi...