Laws of Gravity

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...

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...

I pretty much put the entire summer school class on Google Slides. It's way easier than writing things on a whiteboard. I could project ...

Juneteenth is a brand new holiday. (It only became a holiday last year.) It's so new that it took the summer school administration compl...

I said it out loud . I was truly asking for it... On Tuesday, a girl arrived a good fifteen minutes late. She informed me she was joining my...

It doesn't rain in southern California after about April, so the rainstorm on this particular Wednesday in June was unexpected. (It was ...

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 ...

As third period walked in, the class cheered.  "We have a new student," they informed me. When we started, the class had seven stu...

A few years ago (in the before times), I was covering a math class. The teacher was on campus (for a training or such), and she popped in to...

High school summer school is mostly about credit recovery. If a student fails a class, they need to repeat it to get the credits they need t...

About a month ago, I was going through my work email saved files looking for the calendar for the next school year. As I was digging through...

A couple weeks before the end of the school year, I got an email from the sub caller. Would I be interested in teaching a summer school clas...

Yorik has been consistently late, especially for the last week. This is notable as while the school starts at 8:30 AM, we'll wait a few ...

Second period English. Tenth grade (although the boys in the class are officially in twelfth grade). It's summer session, so they're...

Wednesday. Fourth period. It was just Brandon and me.  As Brandon had finished the book on Nat Turner and no new book was forthcoming, I dec...

The last class of the day is "credit recovery". I only have one student, Brandon. He's making up English 9.  Our schools do so...

Things have been going fairly well at the alternative education center, which means it's time for another Thursday 13 . 1. As I write th...

On Monday of last week, Vincent arrived sans hair. He used to have shoulder length, thick brown hair. The difference in his look was startli...

As a reward for good behavior, on Fridays the kiddos get to go out to lunch. Or, at least they did before Covid shutdowns. But as things are...