Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History

I had someone make the comment the other day, "I hope your classroom is like -----'s. Those kids were so quiet and well-behaved."

My first reaction was, "Wow! This person doesn't know me at all!"

My classroom is rarely silent. I like it that way. Learning is noisy. We are not silent while ...

...we share results of science experiments and conjecture about why our data can be skewed and we recommend about good and warn about not-so-good books and we talk about our thinking in math and we notice patterns in vocabulary and we discuss what should be included on our class website and we help each other learn everything and we yell out a new discovery in Google Sketchup and we cry with compassion when someone's pet or grandparent dies and we laugh and opinion and review and collaborate and laugh some more.

We fill our space in the universe with positive energy.

Yes, my classroom is rarely silent and to someone peeking in, we may seem rowdy, including the teacher :)

And I remember, well-behaved women rarely make history.