The key to being a good writer is …
Here I am ending my 25th year in the world of education. Yikes. I don’t feel old enough to write that sentence. Year TWENTY as a high school classroom teacher…
Read MoreClassroomScreen: My new favorite technology tool for my classroom
A huge change in the last few years is that I became department chair, so now I get to pillage and steal great ideas from all of my department members…
Read MoreI’m Back: a Post-Pandemic Decline in Tech in the Classroom
I’ve been swamped for the last few years and haven’t been keeping this website up at all, but the techy teacher is back. A lot has been going on professionally,…
Read MoreBuilding Community in the Classroom: Flipgrid
I’ve been thinking a lot about next year. The next school year will look nothing like past years, and most likely school will be some sort of hybrid where I…
Read MorePeardeck: a Tool for Teaching Punctuation Templates
As the year comes to the close, I end my second year of teaching grammar in a unique way. My school, for good or bad, does not teach grammar in…
Read MoreWord Clouds in Teaching Free Words In Night
Years ago, I found a really great resource for teaching Night. One of the activities in it had students make a list of Free Words. Here’s how I explain the…
Read MoreProject-based Learning: Acting Projects for A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Macbeth
This year I changed how I teach Shakespeare a lot. After taking the Folger Shakespeare Library class last summer, I revised my teaching practices for Shakespeare. I got “out of…
Read MoreJust Mercy: A Challenge to Be the Change You Want to See in the World
When I started reading Just Mercy, I was trying to figure out something that was twofold: how did I want this book to affect my teaching, and how do I use it with students who have never read it since I teach freshmen and sophomores?
Read MoreSummer PD with the Folger Shakespeare Library
So for the last two weeks, I’ve been immersed an online class with the Folger Shakespeare Library. One of my professional development goals was trying to better myself and knowledge of my content. Usually, the Folger does in-person summer institutes. I didn’t realize we were one of the first of their online opportunities, but I’m so grateful for the opportunity to take a meaningful class for free and weave it in when it was convenient.
Read MorePear Deck Update with Google Slides for the Win!
Even though I’ve been in the classroom in person or virtually every year since 1999, I’m back to being new again, hopefully for the last time. This means I have…
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