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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 …

I WILL NOT BE DAMNED!! I TEACH!!

I teach and am proud to do so.  At the risk of being just a little self-serving – I think I am pretty damn good at it!  I try super hard to form relationships with my students.  To really get to know them.  To understand them and what is going …

What Would You Do?

Before I get to far into this post: I am not the best writer and I am not normally one to get really active politically as a teacher.  I just don’t have time…I know that I should call/email/fax/smoke signals with my elected leaders but who has time with all of …

Using Prezi In Math Class

So…as a math teacher, sometimes finding really cool ways to incorporate fun stuff into class can be a little difficult.  Its a struggle to get the kids to show all of their work using paper and pencil, forget about it if they have to type it all in!.  But this …

Passion for what I do!

I teach.  Love teaching!  Cannot imagine not doing this!!!  It is with passion and enthusiasm that I say hello to my kids everyday.  It is my desire for them to achieve at the highest level that I work almost non-stop for them.  I am always on the lookout to make …

2nd Year Flipping…

So the great experiment that was flipped math last year is now “new and improved” and upgraded to version 2.0!  I started using the flip model last year and went all in, flipping three different courses in a single year.  Wow!  What was I thinking when I decided to do …

Back at IT!

So the school year is off and running again, wow!  Where did the summer go!!  Now that my summer is in the review mirror and my school year is the interstate in front of me, its time to put my focus back on the kids.  The question that I have …

Here goes nuthin…

On a quest to find the best possible way to teach my students and grow as a teacher I have tried tons of different things! One of those items that I have not tackled yet is blogging…Maybe I don’t have much to say; or maybe when I say it, I …

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