Over the three day weekend I made a trip to downtown LA to check something out from the library and have a look around the arts district that seems to have so much buzz. The LA Central Library is a beautiful complex, a restored old temple to books attached to...

Thursday night I'm up late preparing the materials for tomorrows lessons, reviewing the lesson plans, tweaking all the Classcraft levels and requests, answering all emails, and now fine tuning the assignments in Google Classroom so they are accurate. I'm also trying to upload the simulations and presentations I make in...

It didn't get easier today, not by a long shot. It is already an accomplishment simply to arrive at school on time and sign in. I have never failed to do this, so that's something. My commute from home is so short that I can't complain, I don't waste time...

"Mr. Joseph, I cried this morning." Why? "I didn't want to get up and go to school." That's funny, I had a nightmare last night that I had to wake up and go to school and then I woke up and it was real. How have I been teaching for...

And then winter break was over. Adjust my wake up time by about 5 hours. The first day is complete and I have to congratulate myself just for getting through it. I gave a new unit pre-test to each of my classes... "A test on the first day? But we...