About us

I am a first year teacher teaching 7th grade Language and Communications Arts (LaCA) teacher at Mickle middle school in Lincoln, NE.  While learning the curriculum and all the parts they don’t teach you in college, I am also trying to develop my own new units integrating as much collaboration and technology possible to hopefully increase student engagement and comprehension.  While my time has been greatly limited lately, as with most people these days, I hope to bring you stories, advice, and plenty of questions about what happens daily in a middle school classroom.

My hobbies/interests include golf, reading, Husker sports, the Royals, The Office, Flight of the Conchords, and anything on the Discovery channel.

I owe my success to my friends and family. Thank you for your constant support.

I sometimes have a problem allowing myself to see the good in things that are happening in my life. A week ago I was uncertain about my path and if I would be teaching beyond subbing this fall. I just got offered and accepted a job in the local district of Lincoln Public Schools and I am excited, nervous and hopeful. I will be an Instructional Technology Coach, which is a newly created position. I feel a bit as if I about to enter the Wonka Factory and am not sure what to expect.  There is a lot of room for creative development so I am excited.  I want to say thank you to all in my personal learning network who have helped bring me to this point. Thinking about and reflecting on education with you all has been huge to my professional development. Tomorrow I will meet the rest of the team I will be working on and I am looking forward to being a change agent in the district. I will keep you all posted as to how things look and what cool new projects are coming along in my realm. I know now that I will be expanding my digital presence and working to integrate tech into curricula. Collaboration is the name of the game on this block. Again thanks and to all the new teachers out there this year, good luck and keep in touch.

“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams”

Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

Dale

And thanks to iWeb and Apple for the pictures.