This Week in Science – June 1, 2018

  Here's the latest edition of This Week in Science! It includes: a desperate plea for some unused goods bonus feature showing one way we close class time lapses galore! Enjoy!

This Week in Science – 5.25.18

This edition includes: kickoff to our Human Impact project a shoutout to Jane Goodall first and second period Thanks for watching!  

This Week in Science – May 18, 2018

This edition of This Week in Science includes: food webs, food webs, and more food webs gymnastics fourth and fifth period (first and second will be next week) Enjoy!

Breaking Silence

Today in school, I was silent. For the second year in a row, I participated in GLSEN’s Day of Silence. The Day of Silence is a student-led event that happens in schools across the country, bringing awareness to the silencing effects of anti-LGBTQ+ name-calling, bullying, and harassment. Students (and teachers) from middle school to college …

Move to the Middle

Recently, I wrote a little about a concept I’m playing around with called Highly Responsive Teaching. Basically, it is centered around the idea that the teacher “moves to the middle”. I first heard of this phrase in Hacking Leadership by Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis, where they talk about being the link that connects people …

The Plan is Not to Plan

The school year is off and running, and I couldn’t be happier with my new batch of scientists. They are an eager bunch with a lot of great skills, and I cannot wait to see where they go. One of the things I find most fun about being a teacher is having to adapt to …

Creating a Culture

I often catch myself looking around my room and thinking, “This is awesome. This is exactly what it should be.” Granted, I don’t feel this way every day. There are definitely some rough patches and some whirlwind hours. The wonderful adolescents that I work with are bound to have a few not-so-wonderful days (both individually …