Sunday – For the second straight day I dedicated the majority of my time to editing the raw footage of the Mock Trial team. With six full trials, two full scrimmages, and practice footage to comb through, it’s taking a ludicrous amount of time. Ultimately I’ll end up with 25-minute video that will serve as …
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Post #190 – Revisiting My Goals
I’m past the half-way point on my irrational goal of blogging every day for a full year and creeping up on the 200 post landmark. I figured now would be a decent time to revisit the goals I talked about in my very first blog. In the not-too-distant future, I think I’ll revamp these goals, …
Wise Advice from Bernadette Coyle
First-year teachers are given a mentor teacher to go to for advice. I was fortunate to be paired with veteran teacher, Bernadette Coyle. I have subsequently had a few mentees over the years and I tried to be as helpful as she was to me. I wonder if she occasionally felt the same frustrations I …
Robert Lowry Clinton: Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review
Back in 2007, I took part in a truly bizarre three-year (mostly) summer program run by the National Association of Scholars, a conservative advocacy group that had received a huge Teaching American History grant. This was the brainchild of Senator Robert Byrd who wanted to promote the teaching of “traditional” American history. The whole thing …
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Tuesday Talk… with Jessica Snow Wirgau
Jessica Snow Wirgau is a member of the vaunted Hillsborough High School class of 1998. She was a student in my US History I Enriched class, and very early on, blew me away with her writing skills, poise, and public speaking ability. Recruiting her for Mock Trial was a no-brainer. It’s been a pleasure watching …
Harvard Case Method: Race and Redistricting
Once again, I spent three days at Harvard University’s Business School this summer learning about the Harvard Case Method. Early in the year I did my first implementation, using the Madison and the Federal Negative case study. This was my second outing, but right after that I did the Reconstruction A case study in my …
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Home Video Games in the 70s
My family’s first advent into the world of video gaming came with some off-brand Pong box. There were six variations of the game that were all essentially the same, with the slightest of variations. Tennis was straight Pong, but hockey was Pong with smaller goals. I’m not sure what the other four variations were… certainly …
Week in Review (February 9-15, 2020)
After two intense weeks of work involving the in-school field trip, Mock Trial, and other adventures, it was a pleasure to have an easy week. But as seems to often be the case, my energy level dropped significantly. There were naps and time wasters aplenty, plus less than ideal eating habits. Back on the horse …
The Visual Essay Field Trip 2020: Pretty, Pretty Good
Yesterday I wrote about what went wrong in the 2019 visual essay field trip, and months ago I wrote about the good stuff. I left out the fact that students did not like having to bag their lunches and do a working lunch. They also felt like the lack of built-in breaks made the day …
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Visual Essay Field Trip 2019: The Incident
I’ve shared my visual essay project in a blog, as well as some of the outstanding student essays that have been written over the last couple of years. I’ve also shared my interview with Greg Pardlo from last year’s in-school field trip, but outside the opening of that interview, I haven’t shared anything about the …
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Fenster on Education 