Today was my first day of teaching in the Fall semester. I got a glimpse of the students I will spend my class days with over the next four months. I can tell already that I am going to laugh an awful lot with this bunch. And truth be told, that is a critical component [...]
Tag: Learning
The 3rd Annual STEM Cosmopolitan Soiree
Regular readers of my blog have often heard me sing the praises of the STEM Center - Cheyenne's school in the West Fargo School District and the only magnet school in the state. Well, you may not have actually "heard" me - more accurately, you "read" me singing the praises of the amazing work the staff and [...]
What I learned from Mike’s injury…
I often say, "Be careful what you wish for!" I say this because things don't always play out in practice the way we think they will. When Mike first hurt his knee three months ago I was appropriately horrified. Horrified for him as the extent of the injury was unknown; horrified for me because Nurse [...]
Five hours…
One can learn a lot in five hours. A lot about oneself, life, and the universe. Today I went with the 7th graders from STEM on their outing to help serve the community. You may recall me writing about this last week. I promised to report on whether Cheyenne chose to mitigate or distance - she [...]
Lucky, lucky duck!
Today was officially the first teaching day of the spring semester for me. I got my first look at how I will be spending my semester. Oh yes, it is going to be a wild ride. I have a whole slew of energetic, thoughtful and engaged students who appear ready to learn. Yes, this is [...]
Building the capacity to craft solutions…
Tonight was Parent-Teacher Conference night for the 7th grade at STEM - except it wasn't. The 7th grade team decided to try a new approach. They decided that this year they would take key projects that they had taught across the curriculum and let the students explain and present upon those projects to their parents. They [...]
Cheyenne won the lottery!
Tonight was Open House at Cheyenne's school. Cheyenne is fortunate to be able to atend the STEM Center, the magnet school in the West Fargo School District that focuses more intently (in addition to regular education topics) on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (hence, STEM). I say fortunate because I do believe Cheyenne's time at the [...]
THE NEW FORTY 