Monthly Archives: August 2015

Core Connections

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I am going to withhold a long and drawn out discussion here, and instead will drop my Prezi that I gave to my internship supervisors on my last day. Before accessing, I will state what isn’t obvious in the Prezi: The main idea is to utilize cotton as a common thread (ha!) that stitches through all three grades of middle… Read more »

Thinking Inside the Box

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My time this summer at Cotton Inc. has brought about some new things learned in my life, though the shocker is that it is the result of being cooped up given a great opportunity to have my own desk and office, without any minions from Hades students nearby. As I continued to sit at my desk this summer and reflect… Read more »

My Experience [thus far…]

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The ellipses in the aforementioned title is intentional. I’ve heard the statement given numerous times, but it is one that never gets old. Whenever you walk into a graveyard and look at tombstones you typically visualize two dates given. However, it is in between those dates you find the generic hyphen; a dash, as some might call it. That hyphen… Read more »

Challenges and Success

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Lately, I’ve felt a lot of frustration; mainly because I set myself up for it. The frustration has come from two ends: from my internship perspective and my educator perspective. In the beginning, I had this amazing idea (so I thought) about how to create this cross-curricular unit between grade levels in middle school that would tie back to cotton…. Read more »