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Podcasts My drive from home to school in Stillwater is about 70 minutes one way.  I’m not complaining at all, its an easy commute – no horrible traffic to deal with.  So on the journey I frequently listen to a variety of podcasts: Edusurge, Freakonomics, TED Radio Hour, Planet Money, …

An Open Letter to My New Students and Parents!

Hello Moms, Dads, and Guardians!  Greeting Students! I want to let you know how excited I am that I will be your PreAP Precalculus or Calculus teacher this year.  I have been hard at work all summer planning out the super great things that we are going to do and …

Failure IS An Option!

It seems that over the past several years, going back to No Child Left Behind, we have increasingly started using the phrase “Failure is Not an Option.”  My question is why are we allowing students to be stuck in this mode?  What happened to being able to make a mistake …

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