For the second year running, this March I’ll be joining my comrades in Lawrence Township Public Schools as we go under the clippers to shave our heads and raise money for childhood cancer research via St. Baldrick’s. I’m proud that our district fields a few teams – usually at least one…
Category: Social Action
St. Baldrick’s Day 2015
Told you I was going to do it: Shout out to the LIS Brave Shavers, the LHS Bald Buddies, event organizers Drs. Mike and Melissa McCue, host venue Amalfi’s, and all the Lawrence Township Public Schools teachers, administrators, staff, students, parents, and community members who came out to support the…
Shaving for a Cause
I’m in my fourth year working in Lawrence Township Public Schools, and as long as I have been here, students and staff have participated in St. Baldrick’s Day, a fundraiser for childhood cancer research in which participants shave their heads. I’ve seen firsthand the positive impact the event has on…
What Will They Remember? #Ferguson
Just some memories and questions that were inspired by Rafranz Davis’ post, “When Real Life Happens, the Lesson Plans Change”. I was in seventh grade in November 1989. I don’t remember many specifics about what I learned in school that year, nor do I remember what we were studying – or…
Sharing My Career Via Dropbox
On March 7, 2011, I finally did something I have wanted to do for a long time: I made available for download all the materials I developed, adapted, and otherwise used for all the courses I taught over the span of my eight-year career teaching high school English. Why I…