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September 12: Products

Students are making some great progress on their shelters they’ve been building. A few have even finished construction. They’re coming up with a pretty wide variety of ideas for solving the problem of paper construction without any type of adhesives. I really enjoy when projects get to the stage where I’m just offering feedback orContinue reading “September 12: Products”

September 11: Weekends

I forgot to write yesterday. Well, maybe I didn’t forget because I definitely thought about it, but I just didn’t do it. It’s the weekend and I just didn’t make the time, and I’m ok with that. My family works hard during the week. My wife and I as educators and my kids as students.Continue reading “September 11: Weekends”

September 9: Mystery

Made it. It’s finally the weekend. I had part of a project go missing yesterday. One of the characters from our build a shelter project disappeared. I have to be honest, I feared the worst, that a student had picked them up and taken them. I hate feeling that way, but it seemed quite possible.Continue reading “September 9: Mystery”

September 8: Creativity

Today started with two hours of Map testing. That’s all I’m going to say about that. In my classes today, we had a lot of fun. This was my 2 class day and they’re both DT 2 so we’re in building mode. They’re working on building shelters for their clients out of only paper. ItContinue reading “September 8: Creativity”

September 7: Running

Almost to the end of the second full week of school and I’m tired. Being back in person is awesome and exhausting. Like trying to go from walking a mile a day to running a 10k in a week. My knees hurt, my head hurts, my feet are tired and I honestly can’t believe I’mContinue reading “September 7: Running”

September 6: Connections

Sometimes a favorite part of my job doesn’t have anything to do with teaching. Last night a friend from an old school reached out to me to ask some questions about the programs we use for student management systems and grading and all that fun stuff. I didn’t have all the answers to his questionsContinue reading “September 6: Connections”

September 5: Reading

I waited too long to write this tonight. My kids are playing mini basketball in the hallway, and I’m really ready to just read my book (The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle) and fall asleep. But alas, I’m only 5 days into this challenge so here we are. I’ll go with the reading themeContinue reading “September 5: Reading”

September 4: Weekend, Oops

So maybe I’m cheating a bit and writing this on the morning of the 5th and maybe that isn’t the greatest start to a 30 day challenge to miss a day less than a week in, but maybe I’m modeling for my students that it is ok to miss a day. Since I said thisContinue reading “September 4: Weekend, Oops”

September 3: Working with my kids

Today is Friday, so it is the weekend here in Jordan. That means I do not have a class to reflect on today, but since I signed up for a 30 day challenge, I reckon I’ll write a little anyway. This is the first year that both of my own children are in the middleContinue reading “September 3: Working with my kids”

September 2: Messaging and learning

Today was just 8th grade, DT 2. These classes are fun and totally different personalities as groups. I started the class with the usual Design of the Day, but I prefaced it with a little information about the article I noted in the last entry and how it has me thinking about how we categorizeContinue reading “September 2: Messaging and learning”