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Fifteen years of teaching US history: the plans, the mistakes, and the students who changed them.
I type the weekly plan into the school system every Sunday night. I still start on a yellow pad. Last week the pad showed me I had given the Chapter 12 reading and the quiz on the same night. The screen would have let me save it. The pad made the collision obvious because I…
The freshman book puts the Great Miami River on the wrong side of the old mill in the 1913 flood chapter. I noticed it in my second year and I have been correcting it out loud ever since. This fall a student, Mara, brought in a library map and showed the class the bend the…
Once a year someone stays after the bell and says they are done. I do not give them the speech about potential. I ask what hour of the day is the bad one. Last spring it was third period, the class after a job that ends at 1 a.m. We moved one required essay to…