I am having some serious cases of wanderlust right now. I suppose it's just spring and having so many friends jetting off to fabulous (okay, admittedly mostly on severe conditions work trips, but nonetheless) locales. But I think I'd better step up the "renew Liese's passport" plan.

Man, I just realized I let the SO drive off not only with apparently my backpack with all the tech stuff other than my actual laptop in it, which means I can't plug in the dongle and play with Pro Tools any tonight. AND with the bag of bacon jerky. Did y'all know there was such a thing as bacon jerky? Because there is. I ate three bags of it on this road trip alone. It is bacon! On demand! Just sitting there in your car for any time you're, say, purely hypothetically, sitting in a traffic jam in Dallas and fuming, and you need bacon. And then suddenly all the drivers around you get nicer and the wait gets shorter, because, bacon!

So one of the coolest things I've seen a math teacher do is each day she has a my favorite mistake. She gives a warm up problem with an equation. She sorts them into wrong and right, then she looks for one that is wrong in a way that shows some mistake that is really wrong around a skill she is teaching, like distributive property, maybe. Then she recopies it in her handwriting and displays it and they discuss.

This sounds a bit like the school version of ita's last slide.

Did y'all know there was such a thing as bacon jerky?

Oof, this is dangerous information. First bacon jam and now this.

I KNOW! Shelf stable bacon!

That's really great, Kat, 'cause mistakes are one of the best ways to learn, and it's tough for students to grok that sometimes. I have this whole speech I give on making your mistakes big so you can learn from them, and we laugh a lot in our classes while correcting things, ("good correction" is higher praise than "that's right") but something like that is a great idea for framing that conversation.

aaaand I just bought bacon jerky off Amazon. Thanks, Liese! Bacon on demand!

this was not something that I needed to know about.

It's a little dry, 'cause, you know, jerky. But it is seriously something I didn't know I needed until this week.

But hasn't there always been shelf-stable bacon in those little packets in the salad seasoning aisle? (Not that I've ever tested its staying power after purchase, mind you...)

In terms of rewarding people for identifying risks/problems literal cookies can be very effective. An *immediate* reward, and the sweet taste gives very powerful sense memory reinforcement.

So one of the coolest things I've seen a math teacher do is each day she has a my favorite mistake.

That's a great idea. I get so many great teaching ideas from you, Kat.

But hasn't there always been shelf-stable bacon in those little packets in the salad seasoning aisle?

Bac-O-Bits? Those are soy, not bacon.