I am taking part in the Slice of Life Story Challenge with Two Writing Teachers. For this challenge I will be attempting to write a “Slice of Life” post each day in the month of March and each Tuesday after that. To support my Math-Love theme (click here and here), I have picked a fellow math-lover…
I am taking part in the Slice of Life Story Challenge with Two Writing Teachers. For this challenge I will be attempting to write a “Slice of Life” post each day in the month of March and each Tuesday after that. Part of my new-found love for math centers around it’s elegance and ineffability. Last weekend…
It is my work right now to find a love for math. I need to love math and the teaching of math as much as I love the teaching of writing. Well… okay, let’s not get all crazy now. I do need to love it though. I need to embrace new learning around math, absorb…
I am taking part in the Slice of Life Story Challenge with Two Writing Teachers. For this challenge I will be attempting to write a “Slice of Life” post each day in the month of March and each Tuesday after that. My New Favorites Things are coming fast and furious these days… New Favorite Quote: “The…
Writing a post in 140 character segments. @Dad wonders if severe word limits diminish communication. #solvingworldproblemsoverdinner He suggests brevity isn’t always preferred. I say synthesis is a higher order thinking skill. #dadsfirstfishtaco #macandcheeseforme Language is an act of negotiating meaning, he says. I wonder, isn’t that what we do here? Negotiate meaning in a small…
I lost a day. I must have put it down somewhere and forgot where I left it. I bet I was holding on to it when I got the mail or switched over the laundry or took out the garbage. Maybe I did that thing where you put the milk in the cereal cupboard, the…
I am taking part in the Slice of Life Story Challenge with Two Writing Teachers. For this challenge I will be attempting to write a “Slice of Life” post each day in the month of March and each Tuesday after that. I am not a good mistake-maker. It isn’t that I don’t do it well. I’m…
The general session key note speaker to day was Dr. Russell Quaglia. At the end of his session he lists many things he wonders. I shall do so as well. I don’t need the answers right now, though I’m sure I’ll look them up soon enough. Things I wonder a la Russell Quaglia: Do folks…
Yes, you read that correctly. I titled this post “chips.” While I just spent the day at the 69th Annual ASCD Conference, ended it by learning from the fab Sir Ken Robinson (one of three people I would follow to an ashram anywhere), and then had a lovely blue beverage at the ASCD “Tweet-up” with…
I am taking part in the Slice of Life Story Challenge with Two Writing Teachers. For this challenge I will be attempting to write a “Slice of Life” post each day in the month of March and each Tuesday after that. It’s already Friday again! My New Favorite Things this week are: Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy…
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