by Scott McLeod | Oct 8, 2022 | Miscellaneous, News and Events |
I nominated one of my doctoral students here at the University of Colorado Denver for a national award. And… she was selected!
Congratulations, Shane Saeed, for being named to the 2022 Class of ASCD’s Emerging Leaders. Well deserved!Â
by Scott McLeod | Oct 6, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in September 2022…
Highly possible that The Blacktongue Thief will be the best fiction book that I read this year… Hope you’re reading something fun too!
by Scott McLeod | Sep 1, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in August 2022…
- The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (sci fi)
- The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang (fantasy)
- The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King (fantasy)
- Starman’s Saga, Colin Alexander (sci fi)
- Renegade, Joel Shepherd (sci fi)
- Walpurgis III, Mike Resnick (sci fi)
- The Tales of Catt & Fisher, Justina Robson (Ed.) (fantasy)
- Cursed, Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane (Eds.) (fantasy)
- Oathbreaker, Aaron Hodges (fantasy)
- More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon (sci fi)
- The Kill Artist, Daniel Silva (thriller)
- Edge of Collapse, Kyla Stone (thriller)
- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (fantasy)
Hope you’re reading something fun too!
by Scott McLeod | Aug 1, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in July 2022…
- Liberate!, Michelle S. Pledger (education)
- Mindspan, Gordon R. Dickson (sci fi)
- Colony One Mars, Gerald Kilby (sci fi)
- Colony Two Mars, Gerald Kilby (sci fi)
- Colony Three Mars, Gerald Kilby (sci fi)
- Jezero City: Colony Four Mars, Gerald Kilby (sci fi)
- Surface Tension: Colony Five Mars, Gerald Kilby (sci fi)
- Plains of Utopia: Colony Six Mars, Gerald Kilby (sci fi)
- Dragonmaster, Chris Bunch (fantasy)
- Be Somebody, Matt Rogers (thriller)
Hope you’re reading something fun too!
by Scott McLeod | Jul 22, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
At the All-Star Game break, here are the standings in both of my educator fantasy baseball leagues…
BlogBall22
- Buckeye Ballers, Toby Fischer
- CAM Cougars, Dominic Giegerich
- Technauts, Joe Bires
- Twinkies, Scott McLeod
- Bayou Buffalos, Vinnie Vrotny
- TheBrewz, Jeremy Brueck
- Good Trouble, Jon Becker (last year’s champ)
- Greyhounds, John Spencer
- Maineiacs, Harold Shaw
- Optimistic Mets Fan, Reshan Richards
- Dutch’s Detroiters, Rick Heitmeyer
- Let’s Play Two, Bob Dillon
Rounding for Home 22
- Nesi’s Quicks, Chris Nesi
- Impossible Dreamers, Patrick Larkin
- Sandlot Success, AJ Bianco
- Windfield Wants Noise, Jason Buccheri
- All 4 Shifts, Guy Ryan
- Juuuust a Bit Outside, Scott McLeod
- The Moonlight Grahams, Donnie Piercey
- Paternity / IL All-Stars (formerly You Down With CBT?), Dave Quinn
- Eephus Pitch, Aaron Hogan
- Who Needs Pants?, Dean Shareski
- Papi’s Green Monsters, Cale BirkÂ
- Chad’s Crazy Crew, Chad Lehman
The top 6 teams in each league make the playoffs… Should be an exciting next few weeks!
by Scott McLeod | Jul 3, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in June 2022…
Hope you’re reading something fun too!
by Scott McLeod | May 31, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in May 2022…
- Street Data, Shane Safir & Jamila Dugan (education)
- The Gate to Women’s Country, Sheri Tepper (sci fi)
- The Black Company, Glen Cook (fantasy)
- My Favorites, Ben Bova (sci fi)
- Acheron Salvation, Ken Lozito (sci fi)
- Acheron Redemption, Ken Lozito (sci fi)
- His Name Was Wren, Rob Winters (sci fi)
- King’s Blood Four, Sheri Tepper (sci fi)
- Necromancer Nine, Sheri Tepper (sci fi)
- Wizard’s Eleven, Sheri Tepper (sci fi)
- Salvage Title, Kevin Steverson (sci fi)
- Salvage Fleet, Kevin Steverson (sci fi)
- Salvage System, Kevin Steverson (sci fi)
- Race Against Time, Piers Anthony (sci fi)
- The Judge’s List, John Grisham (legal thriller)
- Misjudged, James Chandler (legal thriller)
- Corsair, Chris Bunch (fantasy)
- The Prince’s Blade, Christopher Mitchell (fantasy)
- A Game of Extremes: 25 Exceptional Baseball Stories, Roy Lingster (baseball)
I really enjoyed Street Data. It’s an introduction to qualitative / action research in education with a strong equity lens. I highly recommend it!
Hope you’re reading something fun too!
by Scott McLeod | May 1, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in April 2022…
I finished all 15 books of The Wheel of Time series (again). Whew!
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education is another incredibly strong contender for best book I’ll read in 2022. I learned a LOT.
Hope you’re reading something fun too!
by Scott McLeod | Apr 7, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
If you didn’t know, I’m a huge baseball fan (Go Twins!). This year I’m particularly excited because I have not one but TWO fantasy baseball leagues. Woo hoo!
The first season of BlogBall started way back in 2008. All educators, all ‘edubloggers’ (thus the league name). We added a second league in 2009, and then a third league in 2010. That turned out to be too many, so we consolidated back to one league and have been going strong ever since. Most of the managers in BlogBall22 have been around since those early days. I’m grateful for their loyalty and dedication. They’re an awesome bunch of humans and baseball fans!
BlogBall22
- Bayou Buffalos, Vinnie Vrotny
- Buckeye Ballers, Toby Fischer
- CAM Cougars, Dominic Giegerich
- Dutch’s Detroiters, Rick Heitmeyer
- Good Trouble, Jon Becker (last year’s champ)
- Greyhounds, John Spencer
- Let’s Play Two, Bob Dillon
- Maineiacs, Harold Shaw
- Optimistic Mets Fan, Reshan Richards
- Technauts, Joe Bires
- TheBrewz, Jeremy Brueck
- Twinkies, Scott McLeod
This year I thought it might be fun to try a second league again. I started reaching out to folks and… voila!
Rounding for Home 22
- All 4 Shifts, Guy Ryan
- Chad’s Crazy Crew, Chad Lehman
- Eephus Pitch, Aaron Hogan
- Impossible Dreamers, Patrick Larkin
- Juuuust a Bit Outside, Scott McLeod
- The Moonlight Grahams, Donnie Piercey
- Nesi’s Quicks, Chris Nesi
- Papi’s Green Monsters, Cale Birk
- Sandlot Success, AJ Bianco
- Who Needs Pants?, Dean Shareski
- Windfield Wants Noise, Jason Buccheri
- You Down With CBT?, Dave Quinn
We don’t play for money. Just bragging rights… You’re forewarned: I probably will post occasional updates here throughout the season.
Today is Opening Day. Play ball!
by Scott McLeod | Apr 1, 2022 | Miscellaneous |
Books I finished reading (or rereading) in March 2022…
- Changing the Subject: Twenty Years of Projects from High Tech High, Jean Kluver and Jeff Robin (education)
- Redesigning Educational Leadership Preparation for Equity, Michelle Young, Ann O’Doherty, & Kathleen Cunningham (education)
- Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman (productivity)
- Knife of Dreams, Robert Jordan (fantasy)
- The Return of Santiago, Mike Resnick (sci fi)
- The Process, Jeff Zimmerman and Tanner Bell (baseball)
- The Silver Sorceress, Alec Hutson (fantasy)
- The Shadow King, Alec Hutson (fantasy)
Changing the Subject is my early contender for best book I’ll read in 2022. I love it so much!
Hope you’re reading something fun too!
