Laws of Gravity

Tuesday. I was covering the social studies classes at the continuation high school. Fifth period. I was walking the room, asking students th...

The following conversation is real, although not quoted verbatim. The names have been changed (as I always change their names), but the gist...

On the first day of summer school, I gave each of the students an index card. I asked them to write their full name in the corner. And then ...

One day, I had the eighth graders make "pull cards". (Note: the week kind of ran together, so I don't recall which day this wa...

When I started this long-term assignment, I noticed his name. Brain.  Students' actual names are not used on this blog, except in rare i...

While plotting out my blog posts for this week, I flashed on this particular incident for #ThrowbackThursday. I didn't write about it at...

The Learning Center is a room specifically for RSP special ed. kiddos. It's the room where they get extra time to take tests, and the...

I'm not great at detecting lies, but sometimes the kiddos are obvious. Today's #ThrowbackThursday post is from February 22, 2008 ...

The class was intro to health careers. I have discussed the specifics of this class before. It's the end of the year, and they were ...

A little over a decade ago, we had a glut of Jose Lopezes at one school. I'm not sure how many there were, but on multiple occasions ...

I have a couple classroom pet peeves. One of my big ones is students trying to slip out of class a minute or so early. Occasionally stu...

I don't normally use students' real names on this blog, but I couldn't let this pass without commenting. I was called in to...