Austin 2023 – Day 1

The hotel here in Austin looks good.

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Waiting down in the lobby for the buses to take us to the conference site. There is going to be breakfast there, but the hotel restaurant has bacon cooking and the coffee shop has coffee brewing. I’m getting hungry.

So far so good, the buses arrived on schedule. And yes they are school buses.

All right I’m not going to bore you with the details of the meeting I’ll summarize later. But we got there at 7:45 for breakfast then went to our sessions. Lunch was nice. It was brisket and/or smoked turkey with potato salad, beans and a broccoli salad. After lunch it was back to the afternoon session for some more training. At 4pm the buses picked us up and took us back to the hotel.

After a few hours break; some of the people were going to go out and get burgers at 6:45pm for dinner, but I noticed there was a Barnes and Nobles nearby so I opted not to cuz well I wanted to go shopping and buy some new books.

So that’s what I did. I bought a couple of the new Brandon Sanderson books and a Neil Gaiman.

Then I walked back and passed by the Cheesecake Factory.

They had a drink I wanted to try the other night when we were there and I did not get a chance to eat cheesecake because I ate too much, so I ordered a whiskey ginger which wasn’t too bad but got a little too much honey taste at the end but the ginger was great and then I had a pineapple upside down cheesecake which was awesome.

I got back to my room by 8ish, and took a shower. I’m waiting for the world cup game to start soon.

Until tomorrow..

Published in: on July 24, 2023 at 8:45 pm  Comments Off on Austin 2023 – Day 1  

Austin 2023 – Day 0

Hello again. If you are here reading, welcome.

I’m taking another trip this summer but for work this time. I’m off to Austin for 3 days of IB MYP Math. Let me translate the alphabet soup, The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP). What’s that you say, well by the end of these 3 days I hope I’ve got a good answer for you. My understanding at this point is it’s a method of teaching with the goal of introducing students to global perspectives, growth mindsets and real world problem solving skills while concurrently teaching your state’s or nation’s curriculum.

Time to board the plane. Next stop Austin.

Published in: on July 23, 2023 at 5:00 pm  Comments Off on Austin 2023 – Day 0  
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Dallas 2022 – Half Day 3

Homework

Cathy Vatterott – Rethinking Homework

You need to be more responsible – essay on homework

Link to Journal Article about homework bias

Grading

Ta-Nehisi Coates book on grading

Is your grading fair? How do award bonus points (superficial or substantial) not all students have access to a Cricut Machine and fancy paper

Culture of the classroom

Dr. Ilana Horn – book on motivation in math classrooms

Teaching students how to stand up for themselves against authority (ie how to help them keep you fair in your grading and discipline.)

Published in: on July 8, 2022 at 10:54 am  Comments Off on Dallas 2022 – Half Day 3  

Estero Llano Grande State Park

Pictures I took today while taking a group of my 7th grade students to one of our local state parks.

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Published in: on October 23, 2013 at 5:05 pm  Comments Off on Estero Llano Grande State Park  

Tomato Experiment Year 2

Ok my first backyard tomato planting was very poor. Only got 3 tomatoes from my 6 plants. I’m starting again but from seeds this time, so I’ve got over 20 plants. Hope to build an above ground garden box next weekend. Photos will be uploaded and linked then.

Published in: on March 31, 2011 at 6:18 pm  Comments Off on Tomato Experiment Year 2  

Tomato Experiment.

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I started growing 6 tomato plants in my backyard last week. Since I just downloaded the wordpress app for android I thought I’d try to blog a bit more.

Published in: on April 4, 2010 at 1:47 pm  Comments Off on Tomato Experiment.  
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Here comes school

Ready or not next week I have to go back to work. I get 1 week of inservices, a few hours in my room and then wham… new batch of students. I can’t believe another year has come and gone. Why does time fly by so fast when you are older. I remember as a kid how slow things seemed to go.

I’m looking forward to this year, not really sure why. Maybe I’m trying to put a subconscious positive attitude/spin thingy on this year. Maybe I’ve had too much coffee and my brain cells are hoped up on caffeine. Who knows?

Published in: on August 11, 2009 at 5:28 pm  Comments Off on Here comes school  
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