cheesemonkey wonders

I can't imagine traveling to new lands and not wanting to try their cuisine. But there really are people who bring their own food with t...

This was my first week in my new school, which means I've been going through a few simultaneous transitions: (1) from middle schoolers t...

I have said this before: middle schoolers are extremely concrete thinkers. This is why I find it so helpful to have a clear and concrete rub...

We are in the midst of our giant 8th grade culminating assessment extravaganza — a multi-part project that includes a research paper, a crea...

So yesterday I was at the  Creating Balance in an Unjust World   conference on math and social justice  in San Francisco with Jason Buell (...

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

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...

I am so appreciative of Dan Meyer' s digital media problems and set-ups as well as his wholehearted spirit of collegiality. I have made ...

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

My school is located in a sports-crazy town. It's not just that we are located very close to our major professional sports teams or that...

One of the surprising parts of this latest round of parent conferences was the number of parents who wanted to talk to me about why their ch...