A little more out loud.

For some reason, this year, Easter has been a tricky season for me.  I don’t hide from all of you that I am a Christian.   But I also don’t put it front and center – especially in my work life.  In my background in public education, it was a no-no to mix church and […]

The weird noise or the nail.

Photo by Bernd Dittrich

Photo by Bernd Dittrich It would usually start the same way. A student would raise their hand, look at me with frustrated eyes, and say those five words every math teacher dreads: “I just don’t get it.” It seriously happened almost daily – every summer, in every summer school math class I ever taught.  And […]