The death of Adam Schlesinger yesterday at the age of 52 is a gut punch like few other celebrity deaths. There’s the fact that I’m just a year younger that Adam was that hits me in the mortality feels, along with the fact that he also had two daughters, but that he was still in …
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Give Us a Break: Keep Us Working
Word came down a few days ago that after careful consideration, our school district would keep to its schedule, and that after Friday’s distance learning is concluded, we will be on Spring Break. What is usually cause for celebration is actually a distinctly unpleasant scenario to contemplate. Many of us are happy to have the …
Tuesday Talk… with Bob Fenster!
I met Bob, it seems like, forever ago. We don’t always get along, but he tries his best. But seriously I decided this week to let my readers ask me some questions. Thanks to Halley O’Malley, Peter McDade, Yihua Lou, Rayna Baum Lifson, Justin Kerner, and Emily Shearin for the cool questions. Do you have any …
AP Gov: Selective Incorporation
Last year I made this Google Slides presentation on Selective Incorporation. It’s on the short side, so it must not have been intended to be a full-period presentation. I’m not sure what I may have paired it with or what activity I put in the middle of it (probably none, otherwise there’d likely be a …
Facebook Live in the Age of the Pandemic
As we get accustomed to life in relative isolation via social distancing, the ability to connect to each other via social media seems to be increasingly important. Celebrities are engaging with people more on Twitter, musicians are posting videos and doing live streaming, and people are just generally trying to reach out more as their …
Week in Review (March 22-28, 2020)
The week that my blog became a bit of an albatross. You’d think that the extra time would give me an opportunity to really delve into topics, but that would be ignoring the psychology of being a relative prisoner. I’m doing all right most of the time, but motivation is tough to maintain and stress …
US History: American Antebellum Art Nearpod
Stuck at home because of the Coronavirus, I was bummed that I’d have to forego my lecture on American Antebellum Art, a slideshow that has gone through numerous evolutions over the years. It’s the origin of the work I did at Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas in the summer 2018 as the William Reese …
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My worst moment as a teacher…
The clickbait headline needs some clarification: my worst moments as a teacher have involved the death of students. There’s nothing close to those (unfortunately multiple incidents), and maybe I’ll be able to write about them some day. The incident I’m going to describe here is me while actually being a teacher. I don’t know the …
AP Testing 2020
There are no good solutions, let alone perfect ones. Let me get that out of the way. We are facing the greatest health crisis of our lives (let’s hope), and there was no way to prepare for it. The assumption is that this will pass and we will get back to lives of some semblance …
Tuesday Talk… with Sam Schindler
I met Sam Schindler at one of my first forays into professional development trips, what I think was a two- or three-day conference in Philadelphia sponsored by an organization filled with people who seemed who have a neo-conservative world perspective (or none whatsoever). We struck up a conversation at a meal and recognized we were …
Fenster on Education 