Laws of Gravity

Chemistry. Tuesday, eighth period.  The lesson plan for the day was for them to complete some surveys the district was requiring of all the ...

I've been subbing too long. That's what this is. Because today's story has quite a bit of backstory.  Wednesday. Senior governme...

Tuesday. Ninth grade integrated math 1A (special ed). Second period.  Ms. G warned me that the class contained a core group of autistic boys...

Monday. Forensic science. Fifth period.  The assignment: they were to watch the second half of a video on Amanda Knox . They had questions t...

Two of the most beautiful words appeared in the lesson plans for the day: student teacher. Woo-hoo! It was eleventh grade U.S. history, so I...

About three weeks ago, I got an email from a teacher asking if I would be able to cover her class. Of course, I replied.  Then last Friday I...

Tuesday. Middle school yearbook. Seventh period. It was Adam Sandler day. Which meant everyone was dressed in shorts, sloppy t-shirts, sand...

Friday. Peer counseling/mental health class, third period.  (This class was a new one for me. The teacher has been with the school for sever...

I was out the door on time Wednesday morning, even, maybe, a bit early. It was supposed to be a blazing hot day (we ended up with a high of ...

Tuesday. Eighth grade U.S. history, fourth period.  Mr. R, who was on campus at some meeting or other, told me that his fourth period class ...

Tuesday. High school art, second period.  They're really cracking down on cell phones, and so Ms. G had asked me to make sure to collect...

Wednesday. Seventh grade world history. Fifth period.  The kiddos had work in their Google Classroom. They had vocabulary words and question...

Wednesday. Seventh grade success, third period.  (Different campus than the one I did the week and a half of seventh grade success at, but t...

Thursday, while sitting in the teacher's lounge/workroom in the main office, a job popped up on the subbing app. A job I was kind of sho...

Tuesday. Lunch.  I had just finished getting the students into their online gradebook (see yesterday's post), and I was organizing my st...

I connected with the middle school assistant principal, and she sent me a bunch of resources for the seventh grade success classes I was cov...

My little counter at the top of my posts page tells me this is post #4500. Wow. I'm kind of amazed I noticed it. I guess I've been d...

Last Monday was the first day of school. And to call the day one big long snafu is to use the initial meaning of the word, the original acro...

Last Monday was the first day of school, and I caught an assignment for the whole week. (More about that in tomorrow's post.) However, I...

Wednesday. The continuation high school. Computer aided drafting. Wait. A subbing day...? Yes, it is still technically summer. The first day...