I’ve always tried to be balanced. While my work generally focuses on technology, my personal life is centered around the arts. I was trained as a math teacher, but I originally enrolled in college as an English education major. If I hadn’t pursued education, I would have been an engineer. Or maybe an architect. I’m analytical, structured, organized. But I’m also creative, flexible and untethered … Continue reading Day and Night
Last year, we spent a great deal of time crafting our portrait of a graduate. The trend in public education over the last several years has been to identify the characteristics that we would like our graduates to leave with. These characteristics — we call them “core competencies” — usually transcend any specific content standards. Ours is called the Vision of a Minuteman. We want … Continue reading Living the Vision
In the job interview, they asked if I knew Linux. Sure. I’d played around with it a little. I used it as the operating system for a “server” that I set up in my classroom. I was running a MUD for my students. It worked, too. But it was tough to get eighth graders interested in text-based adventure games, even in the 90s. So I … Continue reading Problem Solving
Taste of Tech 