Science teacher

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the ...

I took a walk barefoot along the edge of the bay today. It's December, so I am re-posting this. A rose hip in December. The dar...

Two years ago I tried to replace a broken ceiling fan. I had a little trouble fitting the cable clamp, and figured I crimped the wire...

"Looks like the National [White] Teacher of the Year awards are back in full effect. I figured (and may have even predicted!) in 2...

If you're preparing her for next year's class, and that is all you have to offer her when she asks why she's doing this , you ...

Some stuff on my windowsill, given freely by the world. It's not about passion of the teacher, finding the soul of a child, or li...

"Disobedience is not an issue if obedience is not the goal." Daron Quinlan via Teacher Tom The Liberty Science Center was...

Gardening as a radical act. I wandered barefoot out to the garden at dawn, picked a few dried bean pods, heard them crackle as my hand ...

The number of years I have of days growing shorter is growing shorter, true for everybody, I suppose, but still surprising to me. The s...

*We* are tone deaf, color blind, and oblivious. But God knows *we* are polite. This is a sanctuary question--it gives *us* a place t...

13th century Seder, via Treehugger I went to a Seder this week, my first one. I was a little bit nervous, at first--I was raised Irish ...

I am one of the happiest adults I know. Grumpy, true, but anyone paying attention to the world around us should be barking mad at times. ...

Here are things I wish teachers would stop doing: Telling kids the world is round (when it is obviously flat). Telling kids that s...

I do not need to count how many clams I rake up in a year, how many times I listen to a favorite song, how many basil plants bloomed in ...

Written 8 year ago on a blog long abandoned. I got a hankering for clams, and paddled over to Richardson Sound to one of my favorite ...

Teacher Tip Series Magic has no place in a science classroom, at least not formally, but I talk about it anyway--stories of myth and ...

I have spent, in the basest sense of that word, hours of my God-given life working on a document required of teachers here in Jersey. That...

Danse Macabre , Michael Wolgemut, 1493 woodcut Summer is winding down. The shadows shift, the dead start to stir again, knowing their c...

I live in NJ, and we do not start for another month. For the rest of you, I've been told the season starts sooner. So here's my a...

 An award--and a few months later, a fatal slip. "At 3:20 PM on Tuesday, May 21, 1946, Louis Slotin's hand slipped-- a small,...