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Map: Sandy Hook Elementary
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Assembly: Change Change Change
A long time ago I learned the truthyism: nothing is constant except change itself. This is not a bad way to understand the world, but for some reason some people just don’t get it. We have a situation in Assembly…
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Dixon Middle School: English
Finally, a class I can blog about. For the last six months or so, I’ve been subbing almost entirely with intellectually disabled students and it is quite illegal to blog about them. Middle school students? No one cares. Dixon Middle…
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Map of Public School Bathrooms in Provo and Orem, UT
I have subbed at all of the schools here except Provo High School (my kids, my brothers, my sisters and I all graduated from Provo High, however) and have used the restrooms at each of these places. The scale I…
Posted in Opinion, Webcomics
Substitute Teaching: Assembly (CUE 1.12 & 13)
Today was the opposite of yesterday. Yesterday was the worst. Doldrums. I disagree with Dante on what hell would be. Hell is boring. Nothing going on. Nothing going on to the point of torment. Sitting around doing nothing to the…
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Substitute Teaching: Assembly (CUE 1.07)
I have to apologize for using initials when discussing students and the workers at CUE. A few weeks ago, I went to a seminar about the privacy expectations for students I have to teach. This expectation is not required for…
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Substitute Teaching: Resource Math (TVHS 3.1)
The problem with teaching at Timpview is that I live in their area. The risk is that I would know some of the kids that go there. Today I taught three kids that live in my complex. The further problem…
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Substitute Teaching: English (CVJHS 1)
I taught English again. I’m not going to have this chance for two and a half weeks unfortunately. I picked up an assignment for the rest of the week and was requested to work for two weeks at Provo Post…
Posted in Substitute Teaching
Substitute Teaching: Science (PGJHS 1)
I have to compliment Ms. Brush, the teacher I subbed for, for writing the best lesson plan I’ve ever had. It was thorough, detailed and paced appropriately. Lesson plans should always be like this. I’ve actually been lucky with lesson…
Posted in Art, Substitute Teaching
Substitute Teaching: FACS (WCJH 3)
Last time I was here, the pre-algebra classes I taught were completely silent. This time, Willow Creek was a very normal middle school. Chatter. Laughter. Giggles. Smiles. Cheekiness. I subbed for the kitchen skills teacher. Two eighth grade nutrition classes…
Posted in Substitute Teaching
- Rhedd Copper
- And You Too Can Be an Ancestry Ninja
- Anti Wells Fargo Protests
- New Employee ID Badge
- The Ogre Says
- The Dynamic Duo: Planning for the Future (a quick sketch)
- Decline of Marriage & the Rise of Un-Wed Mothers
- Red Bull
- Pope Francis I
- Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: The Debate
- Douglas Adams (03.11.1952 – 05.11.2001) — Happy Birthday
- Two Story Small House
- The Job Hunt Thus Far
- Where the Party’s At
- Small House
- John Kerry: Secretary of State
- Fox News: Megyn Kelley Makes a Point, but Who Cares
- Scotty
- Rex Reed: Obesity Bigot
- Liberal Paradise
