Mr. Locke’s Classroom

Seeing Alexander and his wife Becky was the highlight of my Saturday night–we had dinner in old town Alexandria, and caught up on the last five years. Alex was my roommate my freshman year of college, and Becky was on our “sister” wing. (kind of like a sorority, but less insane). On the way back [...]

I’m here. I have waited many years for this moment. When I first learned of the opportunity for this trip to DC, this place where I now sit was the reason I instantly decided to come. I have thought often of this place, imagined it, reflected upon it, but never actually experienced it. I am [...]

Saturday morning in the very large hallway of a hotel conference center–I’m asking myself, “Where are the cartoons?” Actually, the conference sessions have been interesting thus far, so I can’t complain. But the real eye-openers were last night, in DC. I took the metro (DC’s subway system) with a group of teachers to the mall, [...]

Once again, I find myself deep within the belly of the great steel bird. Mrs. Lopez (my principal) is sitting three seats down from me, so unfortunately, I’ll have to behave myself this flight. Last post, I made notice of this small, randomly connected world we live in–I didn’t see Nazir this morning, but even [...]

It’s late, I haven’t packed yet, and my flight leaves for DC tomorrow morning at 6:30 am. So what am I doing with my valuable time? Blogging, of course. In my staff development class today, I did a presentation to the other teachers about blogging–seemed to go well, and if any of you (teacher types) [...]

I have two laptops, and neither one works. So here I am at the ancient dinosaur (Amy’s college computer, circa 1996) in the study. Both the dinosaur and the study are soon to be extinct–the study will become the baby’s room, and the dinosaur will make its exit at our garage sale. Thank goodness the [...]

I’ve been meaning to do this for some time now, and at 1:11am, I think I’ve finally got a new blog layout that I can work with. The “three-column” thing was tricky. The eventual goal of this layout (and of this blog) is to replace the main website page at www.mrlocke.net and serve as the [...]