"bar crawl"

Bwahahahaha. Trudy wins.

Collaborative teaching, team teaching, interdisciplinary planning, and cross-curricular planning are all terms that come to mind.

ION, SHIT! ND and I thought our red eye left at midnight tonight. Turns out, 9:50. FUCK! NOT READY!

Also, teaching/writing across the curriculum is what I've heard most.

Cash and Plei - keep those pics coming! they're awesome

• yes, the day has completely reduced me to a single, overused modifier.

I've usually heard "writing across the curriculum" to mean the sort of program in colleges where, instead of everyone having to take a freshman writing seminar, they have writing-focused classes in various disciplines, so that you can take a course where you write about science, or write about architecture, or write about music, or whatever, rather than everyone taking the same generic "writing" class.

Yep, "writing across the curriculum" comes from the never-ending English teacher battle to get teachers in every discipline to teach, use, and assess writing. The idea that students only have to write in English may not be as common as it used to be, but it's still a pretty big fight.

(Case in point: One of my students last year was all upset and asked me if her math teacher was "allowed" to make them write an essay about math. I laughed. Then I sought out the math teacher and give him a big hug.)

Ded, ded, I say, from Squeak and Liv and Owen.

That's a good enough excuse to not do the dishes then defrost the fridge, right?

When I was in high school, we had to put together math portfolios twice a year. Put in the math thing from that semester that we were most proud of and write about why, put in the math thing that we were least proud of and write about why, write a few paragraphs about some math concept from that semester, usually some sort of art thing (like drawing a picture that used at least four trig function graphs, and put down what the graphs were -- I made a picture of a little girl jump roping on the beach, with trig graphs for the waves, the jump rope, and some sea shells), and a page or so on some question like "Was mathematics invented or discovered?" or "Is math an art or a science?" (I remember those questions in particular, because the kids who were better at math went for "discovered" and "art," while the kids who weren't as good at math went for "invented" and "science.")

edit: actually, we had similar portfolio things in most of our high school classes. Put together work from the semester, write about how you did on the work, what you're proud of, what you're not proud of, and a few things done specifically for the portfolio.

I would have more to say, but ded from the cute kid pics.

Barb, that's BAH. Also, it is humbug.

I'm at home. Working. Just barely beat traffic. Now I remember why I hate driving to work. (I only do it when I've forgotten my keycard, which also has my bus pass on it.)