Mailbag – Teaching The Outsiders (and more)

Mailbag, Seventh Grade Behavior

Mailbag: Hovercraft? What hovercraft? (Also, Dr. Seuss)

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Yesterday I received an e-mail that took me awhile to cipher. Dear Mr. Coward, Recently I have been thinking about making a hovercraft and wanted to be able to propel it in directions unlike the ones I’ve seen on the Internet. Those ones can’t propel in certain directions, but yours I saw was able to. […]

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A Typical Day – Part One (Mailbag IIa)

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Another question I get a lot is: “What does a typical period in your class look like?” As all we teachers know, there is no such thing as a typical day. However, as I have said many times, middle-schoolers crave routine, so there IS a certain groove to my class. Mondays are for going over […]