As always, I’m inspired by really good teaching and one of the best lessons I’ve gotten this semester from my Calculus III professor is to teach my students to understand the concept.
If they understand the concept then the algorithms, formulas, and any other applications of the concept that follow will be that much easier for [...]

My website is running super slow…and several times over the last few days I wasn’t able to access the site because the server was down.
Time to upgrade.

My school recently had open house and I told a number of parents that their children were not reaching their full potential and the parents did a wonderful thing….they acted.
One mother pulled her son off of the football team so he can spend more time studying.
Another mother took her daughter’s cell phone away indefinitely and [...]

If you’re a budding web designer or a bit of a web tinkerer then Kompozer is for you. It’s a great lite package that packs all of the best features of Frontpage into a nice free web authoring tool.
On the rare occasions that i actually have to code HTML I prefer to use kompozer. It’s [...]

I promise…this will be my first and last post about the election.
I saw this and just had to post it. It rings so true to me.

Working in an “urban” ( I really am beginning to hate that term) district is rough and rewarding. You have days where all you do is break up fights, try to get kids to see the usefulness of what you’re teaching, and you have struggles with staff and administration. You also have days where the [...]

( This is a creepy image isn’t it ?)
I love watching good teachers teach. I really do. Really. I do.
I’m taking Calculus III and I think my professor is a bit of a jerk but he’s also a damn good teacher.
He models, makes bad jokes, admonishes and encourages, emphasizes understanding concepts over knowing formulas, and [...]

I got to work bright and early yesterday only to be greeted by this.
Life is grand ain’t it ?

I’m always searching for free ( open source ) alternatives to commercial software apps for use in my classroom.
It takes so long to get the district purchasing department to make moves of any kind for software.
Here is a little list I’ve compiled of some interesting apps for use by home schoolers ( Nia Knowles!) or [...]

I assessed what my students learned about probability and statistics when we wrapped up that unit about a week ago and they bombed the test…I mean….Hiroshima bombed. It was pretty bad. I, however, maintained that they did learn the concepts even if their scores were terrible, but the language of the test is what took [...]