Into each job, a few extra responsibilities must fall. Here at The Mailbox, this is true for editors who are also social media gadflies, singers, Twitterati, and webcast hosts, just for starters. And this is certainly true for teachers. By the time I entered my second year in the classroom, I had become a technology…
third grade
The English Opening, or Is There Any Chess in Your Classroom?
The more chess that I play, the more I realize I do not know anything about chess. Recently, my third grader has taken an interest in challenging me. And it scares me. Not just because our chess set is made of good and evil Lego minifigures (with the evil ones being particularly menacing), but because…