July of 2009. (Hypothetically.)
(Random summer thoughts. Day 4.)
(Random summer thoughts. Day 1.)
Someone I don’t know that well: “So what do you do?”
1.) Almost two years ago we got rid of paychecks in sixth grade.
(I really wish we had done it sooner. We did it at the same time we got rid of the bench…
1.) I’ve been reading Bill Simmons’ The Book of Basketball and these parts really stand out on “the secret” of winning basketball (which is the same as the secret of being a winning…
By Mark Joseph, 6th Grade Math Teacher at KIPP Rise Academy. He wrote this letter to himself after completing his tenth year of teaching at the end of the 2016–17 school year.