Principal Flynn Summons Me to Twin Lakes

This post is a continuation of my series on volunteering in local schools.  If you haven’t had a chance to read the first one in the series, it’s located here. On the fourth day of my week at Twin Lakes–the home of the Timberwolves, I had decided not to go back and help with testing.  […]

My Return to Twin Lakes Middle School

As you may know, I have been attempting to volunteer my services at Mandarin Middle School.  It’s been about a month now and I’ve made two separate trips to visit them, but no one from that school has ever contacted me. If you’d like to see that complete story, it begins here. If you know […]

My Return to Mandarin Middle School

In my previous post I wrote about my decision to volunteer my services at Mandarin Middle School, the closest school to my home here in Jacksonville.  If you haven’t had a chance to read it, it’s located here. To reprise a little bit, after my first visit to the school I completed the online background […]

I’ve Decided to Become a Volunteer

I’m assuming that you are probably familiar with Daily Teaching Tools, my website devoted to free resources for teachers. And, if you are, you may also have noticed that I am very fond of advocating that administrators spend specific periods, on a regular basis, in the classroom teaching students. That also applies to anyone in […]