There is something to say for good defensive teams in basketball. I grew up watching UNLV (University of Nevada at Las Vegas) playing their Amoeba match-up zone and stifling man-to-man defenses.  It is that style, that “in your face without...

Dkzody’s Weblog post put an enormous amount of fear in me. I have worked harder, cared more, done more, and it’s not enough to please everyone. After 18 years in the inner city school, working with kids from severe poverty, I am discouraged...

Seriously, I’m to the point of not caring a damn about standardized testing.  And while maybe I’m engaging in a little bit of hyperbole (after all, I’m hired to care about these idiotic tests), the fact of the matter is that more and more...

One of our teachers died last week. She was only 45 and died of a heart attack, or so I was told.  She taught English and did the Journalism and Yearbook classes.  When I first heard about it from a colleague on Veteran's Day I was stunned.  I...

-Alarm goes off at 5:15 a.m.  My wife and I chit-chat for a little bit and discuss the why’s of needing to get out of bed.  She goes and works out, I take a shower. -Breakfast is oatmeal and coffee.  Instead of taking my coffee to go, I slow...