Lesson One – Start Something We have indeed started something. This is my first year as the head track coach at Woodland and I have been very excited about the accomplishments of our team thus far. So far this season our 8th and 9th grade squads have walked away with several 1st and 2nd overall…

Lesson One… Act like you know has somehow become my unofficial slogan for teaching, coaching, and life in general…however, today it became official. On our morning announcements usually end with either a quote of the day or an interesting fact and today I made the quote of the day thanks to one of my cross country runners….

Lesson One – You Done Goofed This week we have been learning about the Civil War and the first shots fired at Fort  Sumter. For a project that corresponds with this lesson, we have been writing news paper articles about the events of Fort Sumter from the point of view of either a southern newspaper…

Lesson One – Quit Playing Games With My Heart This week we had our semi monthly advisory period to help prepare for our course selection for next school year. In my advisory we tend to celebrate our coming together with food, and Wednesday was no exception. We had a Valentine’s themed meal on Wednesday and…

Lesson One – LMS Monday was a tough day at school. Not necessarily because anything bad happened, but mainly due to what was going on outside…snow. Several school districts around us had closed due to road conditions, however we did not and that did not set well with the kids. We had many absences that…

Lesson One – Spirit Week, pt. Duex As the basketball season starts to draw to a close, this next week with be our last spirit week of the year. We will play our cross-town rivals, Ramay, next Thursday…and to get ready we will have themed days each day next week. Monday will be blue and…

Lesson One – Three Cheers for Technology This has been a terrible week for technology in my classroom. I decided that this week would be a great time to start a class project using a website called Glogster, however I didn’t plan on the entire project going to garbage. What should have been a 2-3…

Lesson One – I Hate Politics It’s political season again…don’t look so excited. While some people really get amped up for the presidential election I really have a hard time doing so. I’m not a fan of the attack ads, two-faced candidates, mud-slinging, and just the entire politics of the entire process. I stumbled across…

Lesson One – The Sneetchs Today we are gonna do things just a little bit different. As oppose to the normal 3 or 4 lessons we have each week, this week we have only one…but it’s a big one. Today in class took the time to read to my students my favorite Dr. Seuss book,…

Lesson One – High Cotton (Updated) Although we have only been in school for two days this week, majority of the conversations around the school have been dominated by the 2011 Cotton Bowl. Living in a college town it’s no surprise that a Razorback game be the talk of the town, but it has been…