Laws of Gravity

The Thursday before spring break. Tenth grade English. Third period.  The assignment: they were working on "independent projects"....

Tuesday. Fourth period integrated math two (read: geometry/sophomore math).  I was in for Ms. L all week, and I was expecting to find Mr. J....

Monday. Third period. It was my prep period. And while I had believed that the new teacher was due to start, I had just learned that no, she...

Sophomore math. Second period. Monday. Second period is the  class. Every teacher has one. The difficult group.  This class is made difficul...

( If you haven't seen my Monday post, you probably should. It's here .) Wednesday. Eighth grade U.S. history, fourth period.  I gene...

Wednesday was way calmer on my nerves than Tuesday had been. I had had a day to get acclimated to the class I'd be covering for the next...

Archie and Alvin. The boys I talked about last week . So, this was fifth period. I had swapped Alvin and another boy, but that other boy was...

Wednesday, fifth period.  As the schedule changes seemed to be settling down, I figured it was a good time to make some seating changes. Mo...

It's the first full week of school, and the schedule changes have started... I know better than to create seating charts in ink or to ma...

Note: the title of this post references a movie . If you have not seen it, it's a good movie. I recommend it.  Friday. The second day of...

Monday. Middle school English. (Ms. A had something like four seventh grade classes and two eighth grade classes.) Ms. A had this sign on he...

Thursday. Fifth period. The topic for the day was "how to write a teacher an email".  I was a bit worried that the lesson would go...

On Tuesday for my extra period assignment, I was sent to an English class that I had covered before . But luckily it wasn't for the peri...

Eighth grade English. Fifth period. And I was confused.  Class had barely started when a student asked me for a restroom pass. I checked the...

Sometimes two students do not get along. And sometimes, those two students are seated right next to each other. I didn't notice Odessa a...

After my preview the prior week , I was not looking forward to beginning the four weeks in the Success Seminar class. And things went about ...

Students are creatures of habit. They like their routines. Once something has been established, like requiring them to wipe down their desks...

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

I've been struggling with this post for days. It still might not make much sense... It was Thursday. I was covering the Mandarin cl...

I had the same classes all last week. Seventh grade world history. Advanced. (Their teacher was the chaperone for the annual Washington...