Since Josh announced our impending parenthood, I have found myself lacking pants that will actually button. It all started one morning as I pulled up my favorite jeans and sucked in my belly only to realize that I still couldn’t button them. So, I went for the next pair on my shelf only to have Read More
The Cupertino Courier just posted a news article about technology use in our district, which has a great edu-speak quote by me. I’m not sure where they’ll end up posting the perma-link, so I just made a pdf of it here for future reference. Read the article here. The summary is that CEEF has a Read More
Well, I have two months left. Two trecherous, painful months until I can arrive on the other side of my master’s degree standing tall with a keen focus on my future. Or, perhaps I will just be weathered from my many trials, curled in the fetal position singing quietly to myself. Not sure of the Read More
Well, I just received two of my favorite e-mails from another professional in my district. Our students just did the hearing screening and we were notified of the results. E-mail #1: “*Student’s Name* just failed the hearing test in his left ear. Please make sure that he is seated in the class so that his Read More
I just read the article Students Are Udderly Amazed by Visiting Dairy Cow and Calf as presented in our local paper, the Cupertino Courier. While you may not see the humor in it, I pretty much laughed my way through the entire article. I imagined this same scene playing out in my hometown in Minnesota. Read More
It’s official. After last week’s Gilmore Girl’s episode, I have officially decided to ban the show. You’re talking to a girl who owns seasons 1-6 on DVD (but I got season 6 a little begrudgingly…). The problem with Gilmore Girls is that after season 5, the characters started acting like complete idiots. Lorelai, who was Read More
When Josh and I first moved to the Bay Area, we noticed several changes from our life in Minnesota. Some of the changes were big obvious things. But others were small, confusing things. Like the time we were eating at a restaurant and I ordered a salad with French dressing. The waitress looked at me Read More
You totally have to watch this video: Cellular Visions: The Inner Life of a Cell. A colleague sent ti to me. It’s an animation done by XVIVO, a scientific animation company, for Harvard biology students. It took academic data and narrative from the biology lab and Harvard, and made it in a way that simple Read More
Well, I go back to work tomorrow. It’s the most difficult to go back after the holiday break because I’ve had a little rest, a little play, and gotten a little work done — but never as much as I wanted to. Now I wake up today (around 1:30 p.m. to boot, gotta love the Read More
My team of middle school helpers were assisting me with unloading and reloading the kiln at school. One of them, while carefully lifting fired projects, wanted to run an idea by me. He seemed very excited, like he was on the brink of starting a worldwide revolution. Anyway, here is what happened: Him: Mrs. Lewis? Read More