Ewww… You Gave me Cooties!
Are you old enough to remember the game Cooties? Have you ever made an origami cootie catcher? About a month ago, I was speaking to a group of students and…
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School Lunches: A Real Slice of Life
Grapes Peanut Butter Salami – lots of salami Cookies GoGurt Applesauce Chips Juice Boxes What do all these things have in common? They are part of school lunches that I’ve…
Qualities of Leadership Series: #2 Resilience
What do you consider important for students to know? Is it the content in your class? Is it how to apply that content to everyday life? Or, might it be…
From Meh to Marvelous in 24 hours
What’s the secret to a good mood for me lately? I determined that it is something as simple as getting out of the house! Yesterday, feeling lazy, I missed my…
Videotaped! A Garden Club Lesson
Yesterday, I led my new group of garden club students through a lesson in which they had to videotape me. One of my graduate courses is requiring that I be…
Inefficiency in High School Scheduling
The high school schedule during the last two weeks has been extremely frustrating. While the cancellation and rescheduling of things like our Spring athletic code meeting, an early release and…
An Enrichment Post: Those Amazingly Awe- Inspiring Carnivorous Plants!
One of the best gifts I received this holiday season was a PBS documentary video called, “Plants Behaving Badly”, in which two types of amazing plants – orchids and carnivorous plants…
One Blogger’s Dilemma of Picking that One Little Word (OLW)
So, there is this thing going around called your One Little Word. I do not know much about it, having heard of it just recently. Last year, in March I…
