Karen's Visit

My first two classes with Karen Rowan observing (yikes!) stank. But good kinds of stinkers, because I learned from them. I was trying to be too cool, too adept at a way of teaching I am still learning. I was pushing things. I wasn’t entirely listening to my students, I was thinking about demonstrating skills […]

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The Every Time Project

I am starting to realize that every time I want to break into English, I don’t have to. I can, but instead of doing it, say eight times a class period, I can just do it once. I can teach myself to avoid the needless English. Paul Kirschling (Thomas Jefferson High School, Denver) and I have

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