: About Me

The beat, beat, beat of the music continues to rattle in my head as I head down the hallway and toward my classroom. The idea of playing music during the passing periods is brilliant, a kind of musical chairs game for the students to use to push them into the classrooms. With so much to do during the class period, the musical replay going on in my head disappears, replaced for 45 minutes by the sounds of students interacting with the lessons I've prepared. Each passing period takes on a new song, although there are themes for the days and sometimes the insistent school song to propel us to...