Karen on March 15th, 2010

How did March get equated with basketball? Does everyone in the country really follow the college sports that closely? We were at a party last year during March and someone there was genuinely appalled when I told him that I don’t pay attention to any of it and couldn’t even name the “Big Ten” teams [...]

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Karen on September 23rd, 2009

Now that it is officially autumn, weatherwise and calendar-wise, I have decided to include some poetry from a writing group that I am taking part of with a friend of mine from Gateway. (No, I don’t have enough on my plate with teaching 2 University of Phoenix classes back to back, teaching full time, riding [...]

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Karen on January 20th, 2009

For anyone in education, differentiation is a buzz word that has been around for decades but is, in reality, minimally used in the classroom. What does it mean? Just like it sounds: you make different things for each student: different ways for a student to complete a test, different methods to teach each student, different [...]

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