I agreed to drop my roommate off at a bar tonight thinking I’d grab something to eat and then head home to relax because I was tired from parent night and teaching a full week. Four or five teachers showed up and once the discussions got rolling I didn’t want to leave. One teacher had…

Because of facebook I learned a number of things about my students who I taught at the high-need school in Las Vegas: 1. One became a math major with a full-ride and will be attending a college I might go to for grad school. 2. One is at MIT and was excited to hear from…

After years of frustration, reflection, experiments, reading, failure, and observations I finished a day of school ecstatic and even sent and email saying “I LOVE my job.” If you read through the posts from my first three years teaching, you’ll see that while I had good moments, and thought that my job was important, I…