Collateral Learning

We hear it all the time- gripe, gripe, gripe.  Faculty and team meetings get lost among all the complaints about students and learning and administration and parents and lack of texts and lack of supplies and the broken copier and the pathetic lunch options and on and on and on.  In facilitating a discussion the [...]

As a teacher I knew that the reason I was in the classroom was to ensure that the students received the best education I could offer.  Anything less than my best wasn’t good enough.  As their teacher and mentor I served to ensure that they had all the tools needed to further better their education.   [...]

My first year teaching, a couple of my colleagues gave me some great advice that has always stuck with me.  Joe had been a huge influence on me- he had been my Senior English teacher and when I had gone back to teach for my Alma Mater, he made me feel welcomed as a colleague [...]

Lately I’ve been contemplating my title- Assistant.  This is actually the first time in five years that I’ve kept the same title for more than one year.  It seems strange; I’ve gone from religious studies teacher to Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies and Ethics to Technology integration Specialist to Web and Graphic Media Specialist to [...]

The first day of school is always a difficult one.  The wife and kids leaving behind a turbulent summer vacation and I am still longing for the days when I used to get a summer vacation (why did I ever sign that 12 month contract?)  But this year’s First Day was exceptionally rough- the new [...]