This is a road map of some place in Italy; were I to use it, I’d get hopelessly lost, as I don’t speak Italian and know nothing of Italian geography.  Lesson planning sometimes seems like following a road map, with so many roads to follow, and so many choices to make, that one ends up frustrated and confused, lost in Italy, when one ...

I’m reading The Canon, by Natalie Angier, for my book club, and it has got me thinking about the fact that I don’t do much science in my classroom.  I don’t even have a science center, because I’ve never been able to figure out where to squeeze one into my tiny space.  Last night I sat [...]

As several Scripted Spontaneity readers have noted, I have been less than diligent about posting over the past few months.  While I have found Twitter to be a great resource for sharing small bits of news (and for building my PLN), there is really no substitute for a good old-fashioned blog entry. One of the biggest [...]

It has been a few weeks since my last blog post (hopefully someone noticed), and I tried to resist the temptation to write my “return” entry about my absence. But, I’m not that strong. So here it is: I love teaching. More than that, I love planning units and lessons. I love [...]

I'll be interested to see what comes of this plan, in practice.