The first few weeks for me are always the hardest.  After a rather sedentary summer, I find myself swept into motion.  Energetically, I run from place to play, smile, give compliments, offer instruction.  I fail to learn all the names and I know even fewer of their stories.  Yet, the toughest part is that I always recieve ...

After reading a recent blog, suggesting that teachers should self-censor and stay politically inactive, I feel compelled to write this blog.  Telling teachers to shut up and focus on their classrooms is like telling Martin Luther King Jr to shut up and preach or Schindler to shut up and run a factory.  The truth is that, if we want to ...

I first read Catch 22 as a cynical high school student.  Something about the wry humor, the absurdity of the system and the feeling that I was surrounded by insanity resonated well with Mountain Ridge High.  I enjoyed the lively characters, though I never felt any real emotional connection to them.  So, I'm reading it now ten ...