@makerdancerteacher.bsky.social
I like to Make things!
I love to educate others, as well.
For a childless cat lady, I sure have a lot of adopted kids.
AuDHD, Enby, and Poly, with all the mess all three of those things create.
I love to educate others, as well.
For a childless cat lady, I sure have a lot of adopted kids.
AuDHD, Enby, and Poly, with all the mess all three of those things create.
I'm an official Cal Poly (maritime campus!) Lecturer now.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm an official Cal Poly (maritime campus!) Lecturer now.
W00t w00t
W00t w00t
New tattoo! The cover up finals will be done next month.
August 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
New tattoo! The cover up finals will be done next month.
Had 5 students helping today to prep the classrooms for actual student use, instead of the storage space mess it looked like during summer!
We made a whole lot of progress, and I am looking forward to the new configurations.
YAY MINIONS, I tell you.
#TeacherLife
#STEMTeacherWork
#TeacherSummer
We made a whole lot of progress, and I am looking forward to the new configurations.
YAY MINIONS, I tell you.
#TeacherLife
#STEMTeacherWork
#TeacherSummer
July 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Had 5 students helping today to prep the classrooms for actual student use, instead of the storage space mess it looked like during summer!
We made a whole lot of progress, and I am looking forward to the new configurations.
YAY MINIONS, I tell you.
#TeacherLife
#STEMTeacherWork
#TeacherSummer
We made a whole lot of progress, and I am looking forward to the new configurations.
YAY MINIONS, I tell you.
#TeacherLife
#STEMTeacherWork
#TeacherSummer
Enjoying a stop for flooring because they had a fishtank!
June 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Enjoying a stop for flooring because they had a fishtank!
Hello little linetracking robot.
June 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Hello little linetracking robot.
June 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
At the California computer science models of practice summit: all about AI and how to include it in meaningful ways!
#TeacherLife
#TeacherLife
June 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
At the California computer science models of practice summit: all about AI and how to include it in meaningful ways!
#TeacherLife
#TeacherLife
Monterey (well, taken as i drove down, so like an hour away ish) sunset.
June 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Monterey (well, taken as i drove down, so like an hour away ish) sunset.
At the @bayfc.com game, enjoying the dancing and music at the fan zone!
June 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
At the @bayfc.com game, enjoying the dancing and music at the fan zone!
So ready to be home! Travel days are as exhausting as the Reading days!
June 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
So ready to be home! Travel days are as exhausting as the Reading days!
Have arrived for ap csa reading. Anyone kc, mo local who sees this willing to show me the good dark beers here in Kansas City?
June 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Have arrived for ap csa reading. Anyone kc, mo local who sees this willing to show me the good dark beers here in Kansas City?
Part 8/8
I think as technology and the world changes, I constantly feel new because the students are not raised/prepared/trained/guided(/whatever words you feel) /etc the same as they were in 2005 when I got my first classroom.
Yay milestones! I'm just getting started, except I'm not.
I think as technology and the world changes, I constantly feel new because the students are not raised/prepared/trained/guided(/whatever words you feel) /etc the same as they were in 2005 when I got my first classroom.
Yay milestones! I'm just getting started, except I'm not.
May 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Part 8/8
I think as technology and the world changes, I constantly feel new because the students are not raised/prepared/trained/guided(/whatever words you feel) /etc the same as they were in 2005 when I got my first classroom.
Yay milestones! I'm just getting started, except I'm not.
I think as technology and the world changes, I constantly feel new because the students are not raised/prepared/trained/guided(/whatever words you feel) /etc the same as they were in 2005 when I got my first classroom.
Yay milestones! I'm just getting started, except I'm not.
Part 7/?
All of that to give context to this next bit: I still feel like I am learning my art of teaching. I still have days where I am flying by the seat of my pants and hoping it works, although those are definitely fewer and farther between then it was when I first started teaching.
All of that to give context to this next bit: I still feel like I am learning my art of teaching. I still have days where I am flying by the seat of my pants and hoping it works, although those are definitely fewer and farther between then it was when I first started teaching.
May 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Part 7/?
All of that to give context to this next bit: I still feel like I am learning my art of teaching. I still have days where I am flying by the seat of my pants and hoping it works, although those are definitely fewer and farther between then it was when I first started teaching.
All of that to give context to this next bit: I still feel like I am learning my art of teaching. I still have days where I am flying by the seat of my pants and hoping it works, although those are definitely fewer and farther between then it was when I first started teaching.
Part 6/?
and so from any of them I could actually expect to be a grandparent. So I am in "grandparent-age"! I guess I need to think about how much I still do "kid" activities (for example, going to a trampoline/zipline/play facility last week with my eldest and her partner -that was MY idea-LOL)...
and so from any of them I could actually expect to be a grandparent. So I am in "grandparent-age"! I guess I need to think about how much I still do "kid" activities (for example, going to a trampoline/zipline/play facility last week with my eldest and her partner -that was MY idea-LOL)...
May 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Part 6/?
and so from any of them I could actually expect to be a grandparent. So I am in "grandparent-age"! I guess I need to think about how much I still do "kid" activities (for example, going to a trampoline/zipline/play facility last week with my eldest and her partner -that was MY idea-LOL)...
and so from any of them I could actually expect to be a grandparent. So I am in "grandparent-age"! I guess I need to think about how much I still do "kid" activities (for example, going to a trampoline/zipline/play facility last week with my eldest and her partner -that was MY idea-LOL)...
Part 5/?
and spends the bulk of their awake time with 13-19 year olds, it is weird to try to recenter my sense-of-self. Having 0 biological kids, I will never be a grandparent, but I have 8-10 kids ranging from 30 to 17 who call me Dad(it was an inside joke that became Canon to students), ..
and spends the bulk of their awake time with 13-19 year olds, it is weird to try to recenter my sense-of-self. Having 0 biological kids, I will never be a grandparent, but I have 8-10 kids ranging from 30 to 17 who call me Dad(it was an inside joke that became Canon to students), ..
May 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Part 5/?
and spends the bulk of their awake time with 13-19 year olds, it is weird to try to recenter my sense-of-self. Having 0 biological kids, I will never be a grandparent, but I have 8-10 kids ranging from 30 to 17 who call me Dad(it was an inside joke that became Canon to students), ..
and spends the bulk of their awake time with 13-19 year olds, it is weird to try to recenter my sense-of-self. Having 0 biological kids, I will never be a grandparent, but I have 8-10 kids ranging from 30 to 17 who call me Dad(it was an inside joke that became Canon to students), ..
Part 4/?
I also have chronic illness, and recently was given advice and prescribed to take up 2 things I am used to being described as "retired folk" or "grandparent-age" activities. So as someone who doesn't have a very good internal-age center, ...
I also have chronic illness, and recently was given advice and prescribed to take up 2 things I am used to being described as "retired folk" or "grandparent-age" activities. So as someone who doesn't have a very good internal-age center, ...
May 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Part 4/?
I also have chronic illness, and recently was given advice and prescribed to take up 2 things I am used to being described as "retired folk" or "grandparent-age" activities. So as someone who doesn't have a very good internal-age center, ...
I also have chronic illness, and recently was given advice and prescribed to take up 2 things I am used to being described as "retired folk" or "grandparent-age" activities. So as someone who doesn't have a very good internal-age center, ...
Part 3/?
Also, in talking to other teachers who were getting their tenure this year, and hearing that they were graduating high school when I started this 10-yr span at Pittsburg High!
I not-quite jokingly have simply said I feel old, now.
Also, in talking to other teachers who were getting their tenure this year, and hearing that they were graduating high school when I started this 10-yr span at Pittsburg High!
I not-quite jokingly have simply said I feel old, now.
May 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Part 3/?
Also, in talking to other teachers who were getting their tenure this year, and hearing that they were graduating high school when I started this 10-yr span at Pittsburg High!
I not-quite jokingly have simply said I feel old, now.
Also, in talking to other teachers who were getting their tenure this year, and hearing that they were graduating high school when I started this 10-yr span at Pittsburg High!
I not-quite jokingly have simply said I feel old, now.
Part /?
I hadn't really thought much of those things - together or separate, until it was pointed out that in the Armed Services (and elsewhere), thats a full-and-retirement-time career!
I hadn't really thought much of those things - together or separate, until it was pointed out that in the Armed Services (and elsewhere), thats a full-and-retirement-time career!
May 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Part /?
I hadn't really thought much of those things - together or separate, until it was pointed out that in the Armed Services (and elsewhere), thats a full-and-retirement-time career!
I hadn't really thought much of those things - together or separate, until it was pointed out that in the Armed Services (and elsewhere), thats a full-and-retirement-time career!
Looong post thread!
Photos of my student's final design projects (a jewelry line) included.
Part 1/?
This year is a multi-milestone one for me.
+ 25 year high school anniversary
+ First official high school reunion
+ 20 years of teaching high school
+10 years of teaching in the same school
Photos of my student's final design projects (a jewelry line) included.
Part 1/?
This year is a multi-milestone one for me.
+ 25 year high school anniversary
+ First official high school reunion
+ 20 years of teaching high school
+10 years of teaching in the same school
May 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Looong post thread!
Photos of my student's final design projects (a jewelry line) included.
Part 1/?
This year is a multi-milestone one for me.
+ 25 year high school anniversary
+ First official high school reunion
+ 20 years of teaching high school
+10 years of teaching in the same school
Photos of my student's final design projects (a jewelry line) included.
Part 1/?
This year is a multi-milestone one for me.
+ 25 year high school anniversary
+ First official high school reunion
+ 20 years of teaching high school
+10 years of teaching in the same school
One of my students finished their jewelry line physical models...
#IntroToDesign
#IntroToDesign
May 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
One of my students finished their jewelry line physical models...
#IntroToDesign
#IntroToDesign
A visual into how my day is going. How about yours, internet folks?
May 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A visual into how my day is going. How about yours, internet folks?
Making stuff.
May 19, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Making stuff.
Final project in intro to design:
Creat a jewelry line of at least 7 different types of pieces.
You can 3dp, but aren't required to. You DO have to cad it, though.
This is the supplies list requested so far.
#EngineeringTeacher
#PLTW
Creat a jewelry line of at least 7 different types of pieces.
You can 3dp, but aren't required to. You DO have to cad it, though.
This is the supplies list requested so far.
#EngineeringTeacher
#PLTW
May 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Final project in intro to design:
Creat a jewelry line of at least 7 different types of pieces.
You can 3dp, but aren't required to. You DO have to cad it, though.
This is the supplies list requested so far.
#EngineeringTeacher
#PLTW
Creat a jewelry line of at least 7 different types of pieces.
You can 3dp, but aren't required to. You DO have to cad it, though.
This is the supplies list requested so far.
#EngineeringTeacher
#PLTW