To earn a slot on the Governor’s Teacher Network, I need to propose units I want to develop. This could be my big chance to promote projects that not only make language truly relevant but that make students lives better. So I took another look at the North Carolina Essential Standards (novice, Read more…
We love surprises, almost as much as we love being right. As I see it, if I couldn’t predict the ending on House or Law and Order, the show wasn’t set up right. I like a puzzle, but I like one I have a chance of solving. I’ve got to say Read more…
“If I have daughters, I’m going to encourage them to play ‘President’ and ‘Activist,’ and not ‘Princess.” @NicholasFerroni I tried to get my son to play princess when he was little. His cousins actually got him to wear a dress and a crown once. My heart drooped a little the Read more…
I believe in changing the system from the inside. I disagree with almost everything North Carolina’s General Assembly has done to education this past year, but nothing will change for the kids I care about unless those of us in the trenches step up to fix it. And believe it Read more…
My kids in Creative Writing this semester, they’re pretty hilarious, but they lack the polish of a professional stand-up. So rather than a mystery or romance story, we’re working on stand-up routines this week. We started with Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop Tart joke process, mostly because I was searching YouTube for Read more…
Since my mixed Spanish II/III class decided to write their competition skit about the situation in Venezuela, I have been collecting tweet to update them each day from #SOSVenezuela. I just take a little five-minute cross-section from the day, sort it into major topics for the day, and I walk Read more…
We’ll celebrate at the Mexican restaurant after the language festival whether or not we take home a trophy like last time. However, if we’re going to go, we’re going to go big, and we’re going to put on a performance we can all be proud of. Once the class narrowed Read more…
I get to take my Spanish I, II, and III kiddos to compete at a local university’s annual language festival in April, to be followed immediately by a celebratory meal at a Mexican restaurant (as in yay! We survived our first language festival! Actual prizes are optional.) The Spanish II/III Read more…