As I mentioned in my previous post, I have spent way too much money on Amazon this summer. In my defense, I found some good stuff, so I thought I’d list some of it and how I plan to use it. I’m including links just in case anyone’s interested, but I’m not any sort of Amazon affiliate. This phone holder was probably responsible for starting my Amazon spree. It has space for 36 phones (I only need 32), and I’m going to use these cards as placeholders (I also used my label maker to label 1-10 on the left side and 21-32 on the right side). I found this power strip with 22 outlets and 6 USB ch ..read more

This has been a very interesting and introspective summer for me. As I prepare to start my 19th (!?!) year of teaching, I’ve realized that I have fallen into a pretty large rut. Somewhat in my defense, there was covid, then there was the nightmare of “asynchronous learning”, and then just when I thought I was going to get back to normal, two things happened: I went back to grad school to pick up some additional hours in math, AND we have had such a teacher shortage in math that I had to go back to Geometry and Advanced (PAP) Geometry. My school district (along with others in the DFW area) rece ..read more

I had already been thinking about writing a blog post when I saw @druinok’s new post as well as someone else’s in the last few days.  My first reason for writing a new post is that I also made a new planner for this year. For the last few years, my planner has consisted of two parts:  a disc-bound notebook with a laminated cover that holds my calendars, class rolls, and gradebook, and a half-size spiral notebook for everything else.  This has worked out really well for me, because the notebook lets me make overall plans, and the spiral is where I keep my notes on everything: to ..read more

Hello, WordPress, my old friend. I’ve come to blog at your again. Because … I’ve got a bunch of links to archive Like many others, I often use the “like” button on Twitter to bookmark a post to look at/make notes on later. Unfortunately, I never seem to have time to go back and look at them. UNTIL TODAY! 6/10 – The Complete Guide to Spiraling Your Math Curriculum 6/8 – Some Other Lessons Emergency Lessons – the specific lesson mentioned in the tweet is on page 34. 6/5 – A Year-Long Geometry Problem What is the shortest path? 6/5 – Solar System Poster Set 6/3 – (Fawn Nguyen) First Day Lessons ..read more