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….
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“Prosser’s Parking Lot” being removed in May of 2011. Today our normal conversations took a bit of a detour as we took some time to listen to music and talk about slave revolts. In class I played a song by one of my favorite musicians, Tim Barry, titled “Prosser’s Gabriel. The story that Barry tells is…
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Fun. is an American indie pop band based in New York City, New York that was formed by Nate Ruess, formerly of The Format. After the 2008 breakup of The Format, Ruess then formed Fun with Andrew Dost of Anathallo and Jack Antonoff of Steel Train. Fun has released two albums, their debut Aim and…
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…for fundraising, that is. As we move closer to spring, it’s about that time that we start to gear up for fundraisers in my class. If you have followed our blog in the past you likely know about our annual fundraiser for Susan G. Koman. However, after being approached by a former student I have…
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On Friday we held our annual talent show at Woodland Jr. High, and as usual we had tons of great performances by our students. The videos below include several of my Arkansas History students…please excuse the shotty camera work and position on my part. Ryan from 2nd period and her dance performance. Genny from 4th…
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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…
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The past two or three weeks have been fast and furious for us track coaches as we have been preparing for our first meet of the year. My distance runners have been working hard ever since the end of XC season and my sprinters have been working hard as well to prepare for upcoming season…but…
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On Friday I had the opportunity to take our AVID class on their first college visit to the University of Arkansas. While there we took the standard tour of the campus and checked out what they had to offer. Students took tours of the various academic facilities of the campus and the student common areas…like…
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Students, I’ll be out today because of a field trip I’m taking with AVID to the University of Arkansas. Here are your instructions for today while I’m out… Take your quiz and turn it into the sub After you finish, you will then have a blog assignment to finish on Kidblog.org You will pick from…
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Today in Arkansas we continued our conversations about Manifest Destiny and the continued removal of Native Americans and the ongoing conflicts that took place out west in the 1800’s. During this conversation we took one of our AVID strategies called philosophical chairs. In this activity students are given a statement and asked if they agree…
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