Science teacher

What matters? If a child had true control over her education, and she truly understood what matters, would she sit in my class? Ah, yes, int...

I went to a conference this week--the state wants to teach me how to align my curriculum to the end of course biology exam. It's easy to...

It's New Year's Eve day--we just got a shredder, so we're busy going through years and years worth of paper. Some of it has been...

"I don't eat plants." Um, you never eat cereal or salad? "Oh, I eat those--I just don't eat plants." The disconn...

Our school just had a development day for teachers. We were exposed to some good stuff by a nationally renowned speaker. We were provided w...

It finally hit me--high school freshmen think like ancient Greek philosophers. In Period 1 history class, the students are told that ancient...

I had a child in class this past year who was obviously misplaced--he belonged at least in College Prep, maybe even Honors, but here he was,...