Welcome to our world...

I'm starting this as primarily a means for myself to keep notes from my time in the classroom. As of this writing - in April of 2007 - I've been teaching after school programming consistently for the past six years, since the spring of 2001. I've gone through many different settings in that time, from being a new teacher working for a non-profit, to contracting with a school district with my own organization, to the partnership with California Living Histories that I am involved with now. In that time, I have come up with countless lessons and curriculum ideas, had 'ah-ha' after 'ah-ha' moment, but never seem to really record or organize myself as a teacher in any effective way. I'm hoping that this helps, and that, likewise, by posting it all, I can help to shed light on the amazing things that are happening in unconventional classrooms all over. We'll see...