Keeping Up the Pace

   I wrote this blog seven years ago, when my first group of IB TOK seniors headed off to college. I have continued to revise and share it e...

    My introduction to my sixth grade math teacher, Sister Mary El, occurred when I was in the fifth grade; she would come into my classroom...

           When I was in ninth grade, I learned to type from Mrs. H. She was a no-nonsense, strict teacher who rarely made time to smile.   ...

     When I was in the sixth grade, my teacher told us that most presidents don't really write their own speeches; they have speechwrite...

     Every time I hear the phrase, the speaker elongates the final word, and I question the validity of the entire statement. What made it b...

      When I was in fourth grade, I went home one afternoon with only one of my snow boots on my feet. We had a fire drill late in the after...

   I wrote this blog five years ago, when my first group of IB TOK seniors headed off to college. I have continued to revise and share it ea...