We take a few pictures with the Kodak we got last year.  The students keep a serious pose, because this is the Guilded Age, very serious tim...

"What are these doing here?" a student asks. "Yeah, they're slates.  You've used them, correct?" "But t...

I know that I teach older students and therefore Show and Tell seems a bit like child's play.  However, I allowed my students to choose ...

Pencils often lie, erasing mistakes in the gray matter of memory, turning stories, once etched in ink, into new shades of half-truths.  Penc...

Once upon a time, there was a group of pencil pioneers who pushed their way into the Slate Land and conquered it in the name of education.  ...

Often times visitors show up and ask about the pencils.  "How do you keep them so sharp?" or "How do they remain such a brigh...

It's five o'clock and Meat the Teacher night is beginning.  The crowd is extra large due to the issues with an error in homophones (...