Yet again there’s been a long blogless stretch and now I’m beginning to get emails from friends asking if they’d missed the funeral. Alas, it’s nothing so dramatic as that. I’ve just been spending every spare minute on a Sooper Secretâ„¢ project that I finally revealed at the TCEA conference in Austin last week. I had two groups of 30 teachers each for a full day workshop and they gave this new thing a workout.

In general they loved it, and so now I’m even more motivated to spend every spare minute working on it. I’ll roll it out for real at the NECC conference in June, but until then, if I haven’t returned your call or answered your email, this is why.