When catching up on my twitter feeds this morning, I saw a “tweet” from Susan Carter Morgan asked for me to post how I was able to add mathematical notation into a wiki. While I have done so and will share here, a bulk of the credit has to go to Darren Kuropatwa’s willingness to point me in the right directions in the first place. Getting the notation The direction that Darren pointed me in was to embed LaTeX, which is a document markup language which was developed to allow mathematicians, scientists, and engineers the ability to embed notation into […]

Lately, I have been coming home exhausted. I guess the accumulation of this year’s events, both professionally and personally are finally catching up with me. It has kept me from reflecting here in a meaningful way. I miss it and have a series of ideas for conversations that I am not going to let go and still may post, even though they may be a bit dated. Today was an invigorating day. It started with me coming to the realization of  what my next huge goal for both me and the school has to be and I began to planning […]

This morning, I found out that one ideas that  I planted last spring emerged and took root. At that point in time, I was brainstorming about unit ideas for one of our senior history electives, US Government. The teacher and I thought it would be interesting to have the students to begin to brainstorm and create contingency plans for a prolonged school shutdown due to a natural or man-made disaster, such as a tornado or earthquake. This teacher, who spent 20+ years in the Naval reserves was excited, as this approach fit his natural approach to problem solving. On Friday […]