My Reason for Being

I'm a history teacher in a private high school who has felt like this for the last dozen years...



...and I am finally trying to change all that.


This blog will be a journal of my attempts to try to stop being a "history teacher," and to pwn the whole profession.  I think I have finally figured out how to make my students understand why history is the greatest subject ever...and how to help them teach themselves.

I also hope this blog becomes a dialogue for change in the classroom, for the use of technology, for building projects, for helping students find their voice, and for resurrecting history from the graveyard of lecterns and chalkboards and APs and textbooks.