I want:
People to stop comparing Obama to Lincoln, MLK Jr., or Jesus
The economy to actually turn around…and soon.
The government not to waste time writing laws that prohibit the interstate sale or transfer of non-human primates. ( google that one )
A new Jay Z, Nas, Outkast, Kanye, and Lupe album.
Dr. Dre to stop teasing us about [...]

Is it just me or has the Grand Old Party gotten a little…darker over the past few months ?
With the promotion of Michael Steele to lead the party and the media and the GOP making Bobby Jindal the de facto Presidential front runner one has to wonder…just what the hell the Republicans are up [...]

I’ve been reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed off and on now for almost a full year. I can’t seem to read it all in one sitting because, quite frankly, there is a lot of jargon to get through. I’m also unable to devour it all at once because of how relevant it is [...]

This may be my most critical post of the series and probably the one that I go back to and say to myself “this should have ranked higher”, later on.
Once the kids know that you care…they begin to really care what you know. They will ask you the usual teenage math student question “when will [...]

I have officially begun my personal jihad against the convoluted mathematics curriculum that is the Georgia Performance Standards.
Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate the superiority of the GPS as compared to Georgia’s antiquated QCC. However, superiority over a randomly created and poorly defined set of curricula isn’t exactly hard to attain.
My major qualm with [...]

So, I delivered the lesson that I’m offering as a download on my freebies page and the end results were mixed.
2 of the 3 classes that I delivered it to today were able to conduct the experimental piece of the task with relative ease. I let them use the graphing calculators to assist with the [...]

I decided to add a new link to the page called freebies. I make most of my own lessons because textbooks are terrible in general.
My first of many freebies is a lesson called making sense of slope…feel free to grab it, use, remix it, trash it, whatever.
Just link back to me if you do!

One of my colleagues has taken to calling my repeater iTunes.
iTunes is absent today and all is right with the world.
Am I wrong for that sentiment or do all teachers have that one student who just pushes all of your buttons?

I have a new favorite teacher blog
http://chalkdustmakesmesneeze.wordpress.com/
Sometimes I wish I blogged under a pseudonym.

I actually laughed out loud at this one.