Blogging as Therapy


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My Inflated Sense of Awesomeness I used to suffer from an inflated sense of awesomeness. I blame my honors students. Now, stay with me for a moment. I don’t dole out blame like this too often, but I think I have a case here. Picture this daily routine from my not-so-distant past: I bring mediocre to a classroom full of …

Reason and Wonder

In my third year of teaching I taught AP Calculus AB for the first time. I had 10 students (I teach at a small school; more on that later). All of them passed. In fact, six of them earned 5’s. I felt like the king of the world. In reality, I had no idea what I was doing. (In many …