What Are We Saying?

Words are everywhere. We read them. We write them. We speak them. We hear them. They permeate almost every single part of our existence. We even think in words. Words have enormous power. War. Hate. Peace. Love. Words are our ideas and our hopes and our dreams. With this much power, I don't feel like...

Paralyzing, Exciting Change

Occasionally, we come to points in our lives where we have to make really big, really scary decisions. We can see our lives going one way or another and thinking about the different directions makes our heart pump a little faster and our excitement rises and we are terrified. I have been thinking, for over...

Making Waves

This is my first ever blog round up day and I hope that you are all just as excited as I am. The NASA blog project for my NASA mentorship is off to a great start, even though there was a little trepidation from several parties at the beginning. There are five blogs so far,...

Up and Up

Sometimes in life we are wrong about things. I think I may have been wrong about this NASA project. Yes, I still believe that we may have too many people involved. I am still confused about our final goal. Yet, it's not horrible. It's actually kind of shaping up to be a fun and fairly...

How do you deal with a no? Yesterday, my science notebook idea was shot down. I was disappointed to say the least. Incredibly frustrated to say the most. I was told that the science notebook would add too much pressure and 'school' like aspects to this NASA class I'm teaching. When I asked what we...

Unscripted

If I were to write a list of things that I think are awful and that I don't like very much, scripted classrooms would be in the top five. I was reading the magazine Wired (read the article here) the other day and I came upon on article about Bridge Academies. I always try and read...

The Rule of 90

This past week I have been at the Geological Society of America's national meeting in Denver and now that I'm finally home, I have some time to write down some of the questions I've got and some of the things I've learned. On Sunday, I spent most of my day in the education sessions since...

Hope

A few weeks ago, I commented on a book a co-worker was reading. I had come up to the front of the cafeteria to the cash register to relieve her for her break and she had her book sitting on the counter. I picked it up and read the back of it. It looked like...

Piles and Piles of Unread Books

Some of you may have read my previous post, Read a Book, which details how I have been trying to help my host student learn to like to read. Really, I've just been trying to get her to pick up a book. Any book besides her math textbook. Here's an update of how this struggle...