- July 9, 2010Wednesday was my first day with the rising 9th grade (the students who have just completed 8th grade) at the…
- June 1, 2010Last Wednesday, there was a shoot-out at our site. A few coworkers, kids, and I had entered the center. I…
- May 16, 2010This month marks the first anniversary of the bloody end of Sri Lanka’s civil war. On 2009 May 17-18, depending…
- May 6, 2010I’m a big fan of thinking exercises: short activities that model (in familiar forms) the kinds of thinking students need…
- March 20, 2010So I had my first-year writing literature classes read excerpts from Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red. And my students had…
- May 17, 2009"We are like the dust of history being blown away."Him, When Broken Glass Floats, p. 330 When I start thinking about war or…