Saturday Josh and I went to Hyde today and went through the whole classroom to box up my stuff. I was super thankful that I carefully labeled stuff as either “Hyde” or “Lewis” depending on who paid for it, that made it easy for me to find what was mine and box it up. I Read More
Many of you know that, though I technically graduated from my master’s program in May, I still had some “loose ends” that needed to be tied up. (By “loose ends,” I mean two Incomplete classes). I had hoped to tie them up early this summer, but holding down two jobs (teaching a technology institute for Read More
I won the honorable award of being KBAY-FM Radio‘s Teacher of the Month! Yeah, that’s the South Bay’s Soft Rock! (I always thought of myself as more of an alternative / punk / folk / indie teacher of the month, but soft rock is cool too.) Anyway, the article is about half way down this 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 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
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
I was reading Abby’s Blog and it made me realize that I never blogged about The Great Termite Invasion of ’05. What a day. So, it was early Spring in 2005, and I was going about my regular business teaching art to my middle school students. While I was teaching, one of my student aides Read More
Well, just a couple of days after winning Teacher or the Year, I was told that I need to get another credential to be able to have English language learners in my classroom. The one I got in Minnesota doesn’t count for beans. I need a new one and they could suspend my pay if Read More
I just found out on Friday that I am Teacher of the Year. I’ve been nominated the last several years, but this is the first time I’ve won. It’s kind of nice given how hard I work and how I’m constantly doing something related to teaching or improving my school or professional development or whatnot. Read More
In my classroom, I have these pink papers in a folder & kids fill them out if they have any issues or concerns about projects or life etc. It’s great, because I don’t have groups of students whining or telling me things I’ll forget anyway. So, if a kid has an issue, I tell them Read More