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Jun 27, 20223 min read

Good Teachers, Bad Bosses, and Merit Pay

I just finished up my fourteenth (and final) year in the classroom. During that time, I have worked for seven principals and nineteen...

Jun 10, 20221 min read

The End of the Road

The school year has come to an official end and with it goes a journey that began when I was just nine-years-old. If you're one of my...

May 31, 20223 min read

A Half-Truth That Bugs Me

Creative Problem-Solving is a transferrable skill teachers possess in spades. How did I use it when my classroom faced a biblical plague?

May 24, 20222 min read

Come Have a Look-See

It doesn't take long for teachers to learn to expect the unexpected. I learned this while student teaching when the unbelievable happened.

Apr 7, 20222 min read

Marvel-ous Squares

This is my first build in Articulate Storyline and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. This build is meant as a formative assessment...

Jul 12, 20202 min read

A Graduation to Remember

This was certainly an unusual way to end a strange school year. I never would've thought back in December that an unknown virus on the...

Jun 12, 20184 min read

A Decade in the Books

Today is the last workday of my tenth year in the classroom, it sure has been a strange one. The year that began with a tornado circling...

Apr 27, 20183 min read

Illiterate Teachers

I have been teaching middle school and high school students for almost a decade now, but this week came with a startling revelation, I am...

Mar 20, 20183 min read

Tide Pods, Urinal Cakes, and Pet Rocks

Last week hundreds of thousands of students exercised their first amendment rights in a nationwide walkout. Others, like those in our...

Jun 27, 20171 min read

Google Certified, Part 1

One of the professional goals that I have in my five year plan (ending in 2020) was to become a Google Certified Educator, Level 2. I'm...

Apr 13, 20172 min read

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

That's a really long title, but it sounds catchy for some reason; is it that way for you too? Okay that last bit was over-the-top corny,...