Stuck In the Middle
@stuckinthemiddle.bsky.social
Teaching online longer than most of my students have been alive. Algebra, w/a side of geography and astronomy.
Books: How to Homeschool the Kids You Have, Teaching Online Handbook.
Past: Kitchen Table Homeschool Podcast
All opinions are my own.
Books: How to Homeschool the Kids You Have, Teaching Online Handbook.
Past: Kitchen Table Homeschool Podcast
All opinions are my own.
Pleased with this series I'm working on:
September 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Pleased with this series I'm working on:
Enjoyed this from Michele Caracappa during my morning coffee:
michelecaracappa.substack.com/p/a-new-scho...
michelecaracappa.substack.com/p/a-new-scho...
August 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Enjoyed this from Michele Caracappa during my morning coffee:
michelecaracappa.substack.com/p/a-new-scho...
michelecaracappa.substack.com/p/a-new-scho...
Four More Weeks
July 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Four More Weeks
I've got some space left. Take care of next school year's math now and enjoy your summer break without having to think about it. I say this every year, but it's true—I have the kindest, hardest working students. Have your student join them and get ready for Algebra!
May 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I've got some space left. Take care of next school year's math now and enjoy your summer break without having to think about it. I say this every year, but it's true—I have the kindest, hardest working students. Have your student join them and get ready for Algebra!
WTMA is a WV HOPE Scholarship vendor! Have your student come learn with me: we go from decimals, fractions, and percents all the way to the Pythagorean theorem. Only five seats left for the August start.
May 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
WTMA is a WV HOPE Scholarship vendor! Have your student come learn with me: we go from decimals, fractions, and percents all the way to the Pythagorean theorem. Only five seats left for the August start.
Took my youngest to the Ramp and Rails festival (the indigenous allium and a tourist train ride in Elkins, WV), and snagged the last couple of seats on the train.
April 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Took my youngest to the Ramp and Rails festival (the indigenous allium and a tourist train ride in Elkins, WV), and snagged the last couple of seats on the train.
Just a few spots left in one of my all-time favorite courses! With a college-level textbook and other supplemental resources, we'll study astronomy ranging from the shape of the universe to magnetic fields! Add Monday to your schedule and make it a full-year lab course, as well!
April 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Just a few spots left in one of my all-time favorite courses! With a college-level textbook and other supplemental resources, we'll study astronomy ranging from the shape of the universe to magnetic fields! Add Monday to your schedule and make it a full-year lab course, as well!
Kicking it old school today: teaching students to find square roots by hand. Does great things for conceptual understanding of roots.
March 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Kicking it old school today: teaching students to find square roots by hand. Does great things for conceptual understanding of roots.
I'm teaching math fundamentals next school year, and I have seats available! Come join me as we go from long division to the Pythagorean Theorem!
March 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I'm teaching math fundamentals next school year, and I have seats available! Come join me as we go from long division to the Pythagorean Theorem!
Needs must!
February 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Needs must!
still working on the distributive property!
January 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
still working on the distributive property!
I spend a lot of time on the distributive property.
January 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I spend a lot of time on the distributive property.
NASA has made some lovely animations for the solstices! Happy Winter Solstice, Northern Hemisphere friends!
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14366/
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14366/
December 21, 2024 at 4:33 PM
NASA has made some lovely animations for the solstices! Happy Winter Solstice, Northern Hemisphere friends!
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14366/
svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14366/
I’m getting mine!
December 11, 2024 at 3:01 PM
I’m getting mine!
What I did do is this sort of thing:
December 7, 2024 at 8:57 PM
What I did do is this sort of thing:
one of my very favorite classes to teach!
December 5, 2024 at 9:31 PM
one of my very favorite classes to teach!
you're not alone. From the story
December 5, 2024 at 8:56 PM
you're not alone. From the story
She's very talented in art, and this autumn, she's had weekly online group watercolor lessons from an Irish teacher living in the UK.
outschool.com/teachers/Lin...
outschool.com/teachers/Lin...
December 3, 2024 at 4:29 PM
She's very talented in art, and this autumn, she's had weekly online group watercolor lessons from an Irish teacher living in the UK.
outschool.com/teachers/Lin...
outschool.com/teachers/Lin...
Looking forward to having some time to dig in!
November 26, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Looking forward to having some time to dig in!
So here's a test project I made that I uploaded PDFs into. You can see it's easily accessible. Up above, you can see that the actual manuscript is separate, and you can organize by chapters:
November 25, 2024 at 12:13 AM
So here's a test project I made that I uploaded PDFs into. You can see it's easily accessible. Up above, you can see that the actual manuscript is separate, and you can organize by chapters:
![Plato on Writing
Socrates [to Phaedrus]: ... Now the king of the whole country at that time was Thamus, who dwelt in the great city of Upper Egypt which the Greeks call Egyptian Thebes, while Thamus they call Ammon. To him came Theuth, and revealed his arts, saying that they ought to be passed on to the Egyptians in general. Thamus asked what was the use of them all, and when Theuth explained, he condemned what he thought the bad points and praised what he thought the good. On each art, we are told, Thamus had plenty of views both for and against; it would take too long to give them in detail. But when it came to writing Theuth said, 'Here, O king, is a branch of learning that will make the people of Egypt wiser and improve their memories; my discovery provides a recipe for memory and wisdom.' But the king answered and said, 'O man full of arts, to one it is given to create the things of art, and to another to judge what measure of harm and of profit they have for those that shall employ them. And so it is that you, by reasons of your tender regard for the writing that is your offspring, have declared the very opposite of its true effect. If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks. What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only its semblance, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing, and as men filled, not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom, they will be a burden to their fellows.'
Plato (c. 429-347 B.C.E), "Phaedrus" (c. 360 B.C.E.), 274c-275 b, Reginald) Hackforth, transl.,
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November 24, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Enjoyed having my priors validated by @pepsmccrea.bsky.social ‘s newsletter this morning! I’m a big fan of WTM-style spine texts and supporting texts, so it was good to see this:
link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.nr...
link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.nr...
November 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Enjoyed having my priors validated by @pepsmccrea.bsky.social ‘s newsletter this morning! I’m a big fan of WTM-style spine texts and supporting texts, so it was good to see this:
link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.nr...
link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.nr...
Today is one of the fun days!
November 20, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Today is one of the fun days!
As a certified special education teacher (visual impairment) who works with many students who have a special education need, this is a pretty decent summary:
November 15, 2024 at 2:58 AM
As a certified special education teacher (visual impairment) who works with many students who have a special education need, this is a pretty decent summary:
Am I still peeved about the university supervising teacher who told me that having a large class with poor reading skills read complex text out loud, together, was preparing them to work at McDonald’s? You bet! And now I’m even more vindicated:
snacks.pepsmccrea.com/p/choral-res...
snacks.pepsmccrea.com/p/choral-res...
November 14, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Am I still peeved about the university supervising teacher who told me that having a large class with poor reading skills read complex text out loud, together, was preparing them to work at McDonald’s? You bet! And now I’m even more vindicated:
snacks.pepsmccrea.com/p/choral-res...
snacks.pepsmccrea.com/p/choral-res...