Naming Galaxies
Imagine this. A classroom begins to fill with eighth graders. Many race in to their desks, flipping open their laptops in mid-stride and typing before their uniformed derrieres hit the seats. Others, those with no computers, run in undaunted. They pull open dog-eared notebooks and pull out chewed yellow penc

I'll Take NaNoWriMo with a Side of Tech Week
It sounds crazy, I know. I almost hesitate to admit it. But here goes, I- Danielle- am once again participating in NaNoWriMo... that crazy endeavor where a bunch of idiots from all over the planet pledge to write a 50,000 word n

Lois Shullaw October 17, 1920- October 25, 2009

The Innumerable Caravan
Can it have really been almost a month? Can it have really been only a month? Oh, Dear Readers, I have missed you these long weeks! Since I last left you pondering the nature of staggering heaps of student papers, so much has happened. And no, the stack of essays did not fall and pin me beneath ung

Surviving the Paper Whammy
Pamela Jordan, the amazing head of school at the Chicago Academy for the Arts, once said to me at the dawn of my teaching career, "This job will take exactly as much time and energy as you are willing to give it." Green