Summer Conference

I just spent four days of my summer at a conference for Advanced Placement teachers. As nerdy as it sounds, I had such a good time collaborating and learning from my peers. We had a very long, and very enlightening discussion about a single piece of punctuation from an Edward Arlington Robinson poem and its effect on the meaning of the work as a whole. I know it sounds insanely boring to some, but it was fun to me! An expert teacher from the College Board presented her ideas to us, and we also had time for shop talk amongst ourselves. Someone shared the website http://freerice.com/ with us. It offers vocabulary quizzes, and for each word you get correct, sponsors pay to donate rice to the UN World Food Program.