The spot that everyone else has overlooked. The spot that is hidden away and underdeveloped. The spot that could be the epicenter of something big, a quake of unimaginable impact. I am placing the X. I am sending the message. I am putting up the legend on the map. North …
Purpose: To engage all teachers with tools and pedagogy to improve workflow, student literacy/achievement and connected learning. We will create an ongoing teacher community focused on resource sharing, collaborative projects, and reflection. More concretely, by the end of the day the teachers will be able to post and reply within …
The cleverest line you can think of. Of course. Posted via email from The Throughput
Exhausion mixed with an undeniable thirst for a can (not bottle) of Fat Tire. Posted via email from The Throughput
I used to be able to look at all of the mountains and gain something from the experience. Now, I just cower in fear. I can’t understand them, ever. I can’t look out and see all of them or know the centuries that they took to come into being. They …
No matter how luxurious or feature-ridden, the back of a car in-between two enormous carseats is not a comfortable place to be. As you try to squeeze in the car past one set of feet, you push both of the carseats, trying to make enough room for your waist. There …
I took my brother to school every day of his middle school career. I was already going to our 7-12 campus for my high school education, so it wasn’t any extra work. We would load up the car with the requisite backpacks and band equipment (his) and we went to …
One of my favorite songs is called “To build a house” by Lincoln, an incredibly little know band that only put out one album in 1997. Until today I wasn’t too sure what it meant because I had never known someone who actually had built their own home. The lyrics …
For the third time in a month I am away for a long weekend. On each of these occasions, I turned on the away message for email, chat and voice mail. This is what one does in modern society. We have made a contract with one another to always be …
There were two man roads that led into my home town: East Washington and Bell. In the middle of town, they were one block apart but by my house, which was off of Bell, they were at a distance of about a mile. They are mostly responsible for making a …