Friday, January 4, 2019

Serendipity & Optimism.

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“The DeWine-Husted Administration will reduce the number of tests that students are required to take...”  It is a new year, and hope spring...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

It’s Always Something (a post for the start of the school year).

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Today is the first day of school in my district, and I’m sitting at home due to a heat index set to hit above 95 degrees. Much as I hate to ...
Friday, July 13, 2018

Congratulations Graduates, Don’t Listen to the Naysayers.

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First of all, congratulations to Ohio’s high school graduates in the class of 2018, especially those who were able to use the additional pat...
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Friday, June 22, 2018

Our Education Policy Priority is Nonsense.

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Allow me to put this in perspective. At the high school where I teach, approximately 200 of 450 seniors in the class of 2018 were using the ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Sparrows, Absurdity, Contradiction, Purposeful Ignorance, & the Right Thing to Do.

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In the spring, outside my classroom, on the window ledges of this hundred year old building, the sparrows call to one another in something o...
Friday, April 20, 2018

I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody.

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“You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let...
Friday, April 6, 2018

24 Giant Sized Brillo Soap Pads, 240,000 Educators, 1.7 Million Children, & One Lie of an Assessment System.

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I woke up with three days of spring break to go. I’d planned to go to the Allen Art Museum, and get home in time for the Indians home opener...
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