Five years ago, I was drowning. I was struggling to keep my grades updated and my administration was receiving complaints about it. Because of budget cuts, a math teacher was cut and I was asked to teach 7th-grade math and merge two levels of high school...
The month of May has come to a close. I can tell by the traffic patterns on my blog that many of you have started summer vacation. And the rest are ready for vacation. I hope that everyone has something fun to do this summer...
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in May 2022… Street Data, Shane Safir & Jamila Dugan (education) The Gate to Women’s Country, Sheri Tepper (sci fi) The Black Company, Glen Cook (fantasy) My Favorites, Ben Bova (sci fi) Acheron Salvation, Ken Lozito (sci fi) Acheron Redemption, Ken Lozito (sci fi) King’s Blood...
At the start of the month I featured four tools for removing image backgrounds. To end this month I have one more cool tool to share with you. That tool is called Strip Background. It does exactly what the name implies and a little more. Strip...
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On Saturday we had the first thunderstorm of the summer at our house. I made it back from a bike ride just as the thunder and lightning started to crack overhead. The storm prompted my five-year-old to ask, "what is lightning?" We tried to give...
There is no shortage of typing games available on the web (find 700 of them right here). Most of those games are based on rote practice and patterns. That's why I was intrigued when the Support Real Teachers Twitter account tagged me in a post...
The end of the school year is here or at least very near for most of us. Google Classroom users will probably want to archive their classes at the end of the year. Archiving a class prevents students from accessing it so that you can...
Last week I shared some observations from evaluating the websites of a handful of relatively large school districts. In that blog post I mentioned that the better websites put recent and relevant information on the homepage and don't rely solely on social media to disseminate...
