I think I just found a new favorite children’s book. I was already a big fan of Andrea Beaty’s book, Rosie Revere, Engineer. Because well, girl engineer. Need I say more? Okay: growth mindset, adorable story, fabulous illustrations (by David Roberts). Because Amazon is so wonderful about making recommendations based on previous purchases, I knew Iggy … Read more
My GT classes and our after-school Maker Club are participating in this year’s Global Cardboard Challenge. Select projects will be chosen to bring to a local party/entertainment center, Main Event. We will be inviting the community to play the games for a $1, as well as selling wristbands to access the other fun activities at … Read more
On this blog, I tend to post about a lot of ideas that I find, and some readers don’t always get a chance to know if I ever tried them – or if they were complete flops. This week, I want to feature a few past ideas that I did try and that were successful … Read more
My daughter, who is 11, has a pretty standard response prepared for people who ask her what she wants to be when she grows up. “A teacher – or maybe an engineer,” she says. I smile inside. I smile because I think she says, “teacher” for my sake – which means that she: a.) sees … Read more
I know. I just posted an inspirational video yesterday, and here I go again. When I saw this article on BrainPickings.org, though, I realized that the two Neils – Gaiman and deGrasse Tyson – verbalized something that I believe wholeheartedly. If I ever appear to be good at what I do, it’s because I genuinely … Read more
You might think this is a post to remind you about Talk Like a Pirate Day, which is scheduled for September 19th. But that would be a frivolous use of this blog space, right? I mean, what does that have to do with education? So, I am not going to try to convince you to … Read more