Lezione Uno – Looking a lot like Christmas The Lights of The Ozarks located in Downtown Fayetteville, AR After a long week of mid-term testing winding down, finally Christmas is almost upon us. For us here at school this mean that we have a well deserving two week break to look forward to. During this…

Lección Uno – Finals Week This week wraps up our last “normal” week of the first semester. The following week will be our be our finals week (testing), which will mark the end of the first semester. So get ready for those long nights of cramming to prepare for your exams and don’t forget to…

Lesson One – Support a Local Author I received a pleasant surprise this week when two sacks full of books showed up at my house. These books were from local author and friend Jenny Jones. Jenny is a Christian author of the young adult series Katie Parker Production and The Charmed Life. These books were…

Lezione Uno: Give Thanks Ahhhhh….yes, it’s that time of year once again. The trees have lost their leafs, the weather is cooling off, and football season is coming to it’s climax…..it’s time for the great American Holiday of Thanksgiving. Friday will be our last day before we break for Thanksgiving, and we will return to…

Lección Uno: Grizzly Adams Did Have a Beard I have also had a infatuation with Grizzly Adams and his glorious beard, but this week I received a pleasant surprise when one of my students walked in with a Grizzly Adams book written by Robert McClung…..that’s right, I said McClung. For those of you not real…

Lesson One: Take Care of Your Teeth Bill Cosby always understands. This week has been a rough one for me personally in the dental department. This week resulted in three trips to the dentist that climaxed with the possibility of having a cracked tooth…..yikes. I received a temporary crown with a long term crown coming…

Yet another week has come and gone in great education….now it’s time to reflect on the week that was. Leçon Une: Play With Fire and You’ll….Burn Your Hand The disgusting hand pictured above belongs to one of my first hour students…..needless to say I was very proud of him when he told me that he…

Lesson 1: Is There an Age Requirements for Guest Speakers? Over the past three months, I have received heavy amounts of traffic from the students of Dr. Strange’s EDM 310 class. These students have been visiting my blog as a part of a required reading assignment for their class. First of all it was really…

Lección Uno: The Truth Will Set You Free! In last week’s lessons learned I told a story of a student that had written on the back of an assignment, “This sucks I’m not doing it at all”. This happened on Thursday and I spent most of that evening thinking about how I would address my…

Lesson 1: Tie Tuesday Shows No Limits Above is a picture of one of my first hour “Tie Fanatics” and his normal Tuesday attire. On this particular Tuesday he sat out to achieve a goal….his goal, to wear as many ties as humanly possible (mission accomplished). He spent his Monday night tieing every single tie…