cheesemonkey wonders

There are some very good things about Halloween on a school day, but a mandatory classroom "party" in advisory last period of the ...

At Twitter Math Camp 2013 (#TMC13) this morning, I was both amused and inspired to read these two tweets — one by one of my math ed inspirat...

"One thing I know for sure is that when you are hungry, it is an act of wisdom each time you turn down a spoonful if you know that the...

Last year, the book that changed my teaching practice the most was definitely Dan Pink's Drive : The Surprising Truth About What Motivat...

Yesterday I used masking tape to turn the floor of my classroom into a coordinate plane.  Students had to graph themselves, then find ...

It was another crappy Friday in an arithmetic series of crappy Fridays that were running together and threatening to define the limit of my ...

Wow, did I ever fall off the radar. Plop. That "splat" you might have heard was me, falling off the blogging radar. But I...

One of the things I sometimes forget that I love about teaching English is the fact that I get to get adolescents talking and thinking about...

Dan Pink's bestselling book Drive: ___  has given the business world new ways to think about increasing intrinsic motivation in the work...

I want to talk a bit about sanity — not because I think I'm an expert (I'm not; no one is) but because I have come to understand san...