A Year Ago … A Messy Thanksgiving

This was such a great experience last year! My students were talking about it yesterday and today. So I re-post here today as a celebration of our experience, AND of Thanksgiving itself: Originally posted November 2007 5th grade is the “American History”...

OK, We Have Change! Now Don’t Mess Up!!!

I’m writing this at 8:00pm Pacific Time election night and Obama has just been elected the 44th President of the United States, and the Democrats are picking up Senate and House seats. How many seat we won’t know for hours or so. Recent political history...

VOTE!!!

So in case you haven’t been keeping up with the news, today is Election Day in the US. So get out there and vote like all our lives depend on it … because they probably do! Learning (and voting) are messy! Blogged with the Flock BrowserTags:...

Cardboard Box City

My youngest daughter is participating in Cardboard Box City tonight. The goal of the program from their web site:  Participants spend a night in a cardboard box and confront the experience of being without a home for a night.  What a great “messy...

Exit Shanghai

DSC05721 Originally uploaded by BCrosby Like clockwork the ladies are out dancing in the park across the street like they have been everyday. The streets rumble to life and will soon become clogged because they are never wide enough to control the flood of cars and...

The Adrenaline Rush Letdown

DSC05517.JPG Originally uploaded by BCrosby One way this conference has been the same as all conferences is the pace. You get to the host city and maybe get a chance to look around a bit before the conference begins and then it does begin and you have to hit your...