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Jul 25

Teacher Moves

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Assessment, Ed News, Grades & HW, Science
July 25, 2013

[This is part of a series of posts I’m writing as I reflect on another online course I’m taking this summer, Stanford University’s EDUC115N How to Learn Math. Sure, I’m a Science teacher but I have taught Math so I’m familiar with Math instruction. Besides, we do use Math in Science so it’s not like …

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Jul 02

Planning for the Fall Already #3dgamelab

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Gamification
July 2, 2013

We’ve barely been out of school for two weeks and I’ve already had the first day of school nightmare! What the heck?! It’s probably because I’ve been obsessing with 3DGL and I’m so excited to use it that I’m jumping right in planning my year. I think it’s better to do it now, while I’m …

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Jun 30

Molting Roach!

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Science
June 30, 2013

Okay I’m not a big fan of cockroaches. I grew up in Miami, FL and we had those big, flying cockroaches with the antennae that looked like human hair. My mother always screamed when she saw one so early on I picked up that fear. To this day when I see a black blur out …

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Feb 16

Inspiring Our Students

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
February 16, 2013

One of my 8th graders showed me this thought piece she wrote (this is what she decided to call it since it made the most sense, I called it a story and she said that it wasn’t exactly a story). It was just the kind of piece that I thought would fit perfectly in this …

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May 12

Our Race to Somewhere

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Assessment, Class News, Ed News, Grades & HW
May 12, 2011

Tuesday night at 6pm Chimacum Middle School hosted a screening of the movie Race to Nowhere. We had 92 people from our community, our schools, Sequim, and Port Townsend attend the screening and afterward many stayed behind to discuss the movie’s content. Speaking for myself, the movie was amazing. At a few points throughout the …