Category Archives: Education

U is for Upstanders

Posted on April 25, 2018 by

Part of my job as instructional technology resource teacher is to do technology safety lessons for students in grades 3 – 8 in order to meet our state mandate. For the most part, I really enjoy putting these lessons together, … Continue reading →

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E is for Education

Posted on April 6, 2018 by

It seems only natural to write about education considering I have been a teacher for almost 30 years. I graduated from college in December of 1989 and in January 1990, I took my first official teaching job. I took on … Continue reading →

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Blogging A to Z — Kids

Posted on April 13, 2015 by

Today’s letter is the letter K in the Blogging A to Z Challenge, and I thought I’d write about kids. Not my own, because I have singular — KID. But now that I think about it, maybe I do mean … Continue reading →

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It’s All in the Spin

Posted on May 7, 2014 by

Saw this on Twitter this morning. A parent was arrested for disorderly conduct at a school board meeting where he was protesting a book his daughter was reading. Let me get this out of the way first — I think … Continue reading →

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Blogging A to Z — H: Homework

Posted on April 9, 2014 by

One of the hottest topics debated in education is homework. How much, if any at all? What kind? How should it be graded, if at all? For what it’s worth (and lately, I get the feeling that what teachers think … Continue reading →

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