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Multiple Means of Expression

Every time I test, I'm reminded that multiple means of expression are important when assessing students. Finding ways to get kids to tell you what ... Read more

Staying Organized as a Teacher

I got a suggestion to write about how I stay organized during the teaching day and I thought that was a great idea. My organizational strategies ha... Read more

The Phone Counter

Sometimes, you just need to make a point in class. A small comment or sidebar conversation is a way to do that verbally, but other times, it's more... Read more

A Collection of Teaching Thoughts

This has been a whirlwind couple of weeks and I can't really find enough coherent thought for a single-topic blog post. I thought I had written a c... Read more

Intentionality

My friend Phil has taught me a lot about intentional teaching. He would frequently remind me that curriculum is much more than the content - it is ... Read more

Thinking More About SBG

We're finishing our first month of school and I'm thinking a lot about my grading system. I use standards-based grading, which boils down to the ma... Read more

Working for Our Food

Today was one of our Work Days on the farm. We have work days all the time, but this day each year is when we all - the whole family - come togethe... Read more

Quick Thoughts on Grading

Today was the first day I put standards grades into my gradebook. We took our unit test yesterday and I've generally waited until about then to put... Read more

Simple Standard Tracking for Students

I took a little while to think about how I'd like students to be able to track their progress on learning standards in class. The web app I built w... Read more

Systems of Assessment

Two weeks in, and I'm coming up on our first major grade check. I'm continuing to use standards-based grading as my main method of assessment and r... Read more

I Ripped Stats Out Of My Blog

Earlier this summer, I took a shot at installing awstats on my server because I'm always up for a good data explore. It took a little trickery beca... Read more

Not Everything Needs to be a Service

I often fall into the trap of thinking, "Maybe I should publish this thing for other people to use." And I almost always regret it. I'm a full-time... Read more

The First Week

I just finished my first week back teaching after moving into professional development and staff support in 2017. I was nervous and feeling concern... Read more

Remembering Anchor CMS

On a whim, today I searched for Anchor CMS, an old PHP CMS I tried out after I jumped off WordPress the first time. As soon as I started reading, I... Read more

More Beekeeping Adventures

Beekeeping is rolling on this year. We took some time to spin out our modest harvest this year which yielded us nearly 50 pounds of wildflower hone... Read more

Lowest Necessary Requirements

A goal of mine this year is to ride my bike more. I'm starting a new job that is bike-commutable, which is a big deal when you live in a rural area... Read more

The Box with Too Many Bees

Beekeeping stories keep on coming this month it seems. During my inspection a little over a week ago, one of my boxes was out of space. Bees had be... Read more

Back to the Lab

Today is my last day with my current school district. A little over eight years ago, I started mid-year, taking over a class that had been taught b... Read more

My Friend MAET

This degree has taken me a long time. I started in 2014 and thought I would get it finished right away. Life changes brought that to a stop, which ... Read more

Using Mastodon's Advanced UI as a Fediverse Dashboard

About a month ago, I was looking for some kind of catch-all fediverse app which would syndicate multiple places into one space. Bonfire looks like ... Read more

We Lost a Queen

I've been much more on top of my beekeeping chores this year than I was last year. This year's colonies are three wild swarms caught in the area (o... Read more

Goals Moving Forward

Coming off my recent post on my changing goals ten years into my degree, now I want to take a look forward and set some learning goals for the comi... Read more

Some Recent Arting

I needed an unplugged activity to bring some non-technical creative balance to my life. I decided that sketching and watercolors were what I wanted... Read more

Humanize the LMS with Feedback

I've written about this on the work blog before, but never here. We're doing some course cleanup prepping for the fall and, at the same time, I'm f... Read more

Smarter Templating with HTMX and Flask

I've been using HTMX for a couple years now and I'm still loving the patterns and interaciton it allows without relying on writing Javascript for e... Read more

My Best Getting Started Strategy

I work a reduced schedule during the summer and one thing I constantly run into is not really knowing where to start when I come into work after se... Read more

Moving from beach to nh3

I happened to see a post about bleach, a text input santization library, deprecated in January. I have a couple of apps which use this library to s... Read more

Goals, 10 Years Later

I took the long-tail approach to my master's degree - ten years later, this is a look back at my initial goals and a reflection on my professional ... Read more

No, I Don't Want Your AI Assistant

I opt out of most prompts from sites and services to use their "intelligent" tools becuase I don't want them to harvest any more information from m... Read more

A Manifesto for Online Learning

Online spaces are, by default, open spaces The World Wide Web was created with open spaces in mind. It allowed anyone, anywhere to publish and see ... Read more

Knowing AI Limits

I've spent the last couple of weeks taking deep dives into LLMs and how they work. Stephen Wolfram's essay (more of a mini-book) took me several da... Read more

Not Being on EduTwitter

I jumped off of Twitter several months ago and haven't really participated in anything specifically education-related on social media. Maybe this i... Read more

Rules and Mercy

I'm re-listening to The Expanse novels on my drive to and from work and a piece of dialogue caught me this morning: "Easy to make rules," Emma said... Read more

We Took a Trip

I wanted to write up a beautful travel journal with a custom post theme and write prose like Wendell Berry about our vacation this month. But then ... Read more

Leaning Hard into Vivaldi Browser

I've been a Vivaldi user for several years, but this year, I pushed hard into making it as efficient and usable for me as possible. Some of this wa... Read more

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