Monthly Archives: December 2021

In late August, when I walked into a face-to-face college course for the first time since March of 2020, I walked in under the cloud of a Delta surge in Florida. I wore an N95 mask with a cloth mask … Continue reading →

According to newly released results from the National Science Foundation, in 2020 Florida was ranked 37th in the nation for the percentage of its workers who are in science and engineering occupations. That ranking has been about constant for the … Continue reading →

It has been a long year for Florida’s educators, their students and the students’ parents. We never expected this fall to be completely normal, but at least some of us were caught off-guard by how disrupted our students and learning … Continue reading →

Perhaps the toughest task I have every semester in which I teach my studio-style SCALE-UP introductory calculus-based physics class is to coax the students into embracing the instructional model. Most of the students arrive in my rather distinctive classroom (see … Continue reading →

I’m told that it has been a challenging and sometimes frustrating fall semester for my colleagues in the K-12 schools. So the message I’m delivering in this post will probably be considered tone deaf. But here it is, anyway: During … Continue reading →