Eight phone calls before lunch. Eight! Call One: “Hello, Robin?” “No, it’s Dawn.” “Can I speak to Robin?” “No. You have the wrong number.” “I really need Robin.” Then call her!...
Right now my son has The Peach Salsa Computer, and it’s going to die. It’s time to start computer shopping for middle school. But with a birthday around the corner, I’d like to kill two birds with one stone–get him something that looks like a...
You just spent a ton of time creating a unit. It’s beautiful. You’ll use it this year, and maybe next. Or maybe you wrote a curriculum or guide for your department. Who owns that content? This is an important question. If you put in the work, it should be...
Lice is coming to get you… “Lice is coming around both classes,” a mom wrote in the class Facebook thread. I consult the thread for all notices and assignments that don’t survive, but lice terrifies me to the core. It’s the “He Who...
Good friends make a great life. The Ides of March is almost here. That’s the day Julius Caesar was stabbed in the back by his friends. Every March 15th, in honor of Caesar, I celebrate friends. “Caesar got killed though…” Yes, indeed. How many...
