The Summer Session begins

You’ll notice a new header at the top of the page;something to reflect the new direction I’ll take with the summer school classes I’ll teach this summer. Don’t know how I got suckered into teaching the summer session at school, but I’m glad I did — I’ll be working with three other teachers in [...]

Just a reminder…

Please take some time to explore the collaboration between my students and Dana Huff’s students all the way across the country. The main focus of the project was to create living histories in remembrance of the Holocaust, and to explore the similar roots all cultures share.
Visit us over at Never Forget

Never Forget

My students spent quite a bit of this semester learning about the Holocaust, and their research took them to real stories of real Holocaust survivors. In addition to watching video, exploring websites, reading plays and other documents of these events, the students delved into some pretty thorough research in an effort to make sense [...]

What’s so important about history?

My kids keep asking me why we’re studying the Holocaust in a Language Arts class, as if they had a real complaint. But they have no real complaint because they’re absolutley astonished by the history they’re uncovering in my class. They’re surprised, they’re angry, they offer solutions, and yet they know all of [...]

The Perma-Bound™ Wiki

To mark the very end of the first semester, our school district had a work-day. One of those no-kid days where we’re supposed to get a bunch of work done, but where the majority of our faculty doesn’t show up to school (or if they do, they take a morning break at about 9:00, [...]

In search of Wiki

This past year, I used PB Wiki to document what I did in my classroom. (And sadly, I haven’t kept up on my end of the bargain like Tim, Nani, Dana, and Graycie have.
They’ve done a wonderful job of keeping things updated, and revising their wikis when necessary. Mine’s still half finished.
But I [...]