Hello World!

Just read an article in NY Times Magazine about how the intelligence community in the U.S. has decided it needs blogs and wikipedias so spies can put their heads together and tease out the meaning of all their clues...they have too many sources of information and not enough time to read and digest it all.

Which sort of sounds like being a teacher, doesn't it? Especially a teacher in an urban setting. How many books/conferences/journal articles have you seen recently that describe the best ways to differentiate instruction, promote student-centered inquiry, etc. Too many. But where are the actually useful parts of each? Let's face it, there's lots of impractical stuff out there. So, whether it helps a lot of people or not, I'm going to declare myself a "veteran in progress" (4th year teaching math in an urban Detroit setting) and blog about my discoveries. Hopefully, you'll join in and we can all learn from each other.