Going Viral... By Accident
One year ago today, I walked into my principal's office and told her that I would not be returning the following year. Pandemic teaching...
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Jared Speight
- Jun 27, 2022
- 3 min
Good Teachers, Bad Bosses, and Merit Pay
I just finished up my fourteenth (and final) year in the classroom. During that time, I have worked for seven principals and nineteen...
Jared Speight
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
The End of the Road
The school year has come to an official end and with it goes a journey that began when I was just nine-years-old. If you're one of my...
Jared Speight
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
A Half-Truth That Bugs Me
Creative Problem-Solving is a transferrable skill teachers possess in spades. How did I use it when my classroom faced a biblical plague?
Jared Speight
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
Come Have a Look-See
It doesn't take long for teachers to learn to expect the unexpected. I learned this while student teaching when the unbelievable happened.
Jared Speight
- May 21, 2022
- 2 min
E-Learning Heroes Challenge 372: Child Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement
I took a vacation this week, so I'm a bit later in posting my #ELHChallenge Storyline project than I'd have liked to been. Last week, I...
Jared Speight
- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min
Marvel-ous Squares
This is my first build in Articulate Storyline and I'm thrilled with how it turned out. This build is meant as a formative assessment...
Jared Speight
- Jul 12, 2020
- 2 min
A Graduation to Remember
This was certainly an unusual way to end a strange school year. I never would've thought back in December that an unknown virus on the...
Jared Speight
- Jun 12, 2018
- 4 min
A Decade in the Books
Today is the last workday of my tenth year in the classroom, it sure has been a strange one. The year that began with a tornado circling...
Jared Speight
- Apr 27, 2018
- 3 min
Illiterate Teachers
I have been teaching middle school and high school students for almost a decade now, but this week came with a startling revelation, I am...
Jared Speight
- Mar 20, 2018
- 3 min
Tide Pods, Urinal Cakes, and Pet Rocks
Last week hundreds of thousands of students exercised their first amendment rights in a nationwide walkout. Others, like those in our...
Jared Speight
- Oct 17, 2017
- 3 min
Book Reflection: Shadows of the Neanderthal
Imagine my surprise when I opened up the mail and saw that one of the required reading books for a masters course was a picture book...
Jared Speight
- Jun 27, 2017
- 1 min
Google Certified, Part 1
One of the professional goals that I have in my five year plan (ending in 2020) was to become a Google Certified Educator, Level 2. I'm...
Jared Speight
- Apr 13, 2017
- 2 min
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
That's a really long title, but it sounds catchy for some reason; is it that way for you too? Okay that last bit was over-the-top corny,...
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