December 2012

  • Championship Round (Please Vote)

    It is the last week of the Social Playlist Challenge. I hope you’ve been able to listen to the weekly mixtapes I made throughout November. In fact, I just couldn’t stop making them. I actually made a bonus mix that I will be posting up here next week. So stay tuned! In the meantime, please […]


  • Teaching Tip – History

    Welcome to Teaching Tip Tuesday! Every week I share with you a tip that I hope you will find useful in your teaching. You can visit the Teaching Tips Archive to see all of the tips in the order I have posted them over the years. Please check that page as I will continue to […]


  • Speechless (Let’s Take Action to Make Things Better)

    Sometimes we don’t stop to think about how much power our words have. It’s easy to blurt something out that you really have no right to share, something that can hurt someone else, something that is probably better left unsaid. Speechless is a novel by Hannah Harrington that explores this issue. The main character, Chelsea, […]


  • Chasing Content – The Best of Last December

    It’s the first of the month. Time for another edition of Chasing Content, that blog feature where we look back at what was happening last year at this time. You can read all of the posts from last December. . . or just these favourites. . . Personification in Rap Music – Hip-hop has the power […]