Boy, has it been a long time since my last post! I've been busy, to say the least, with teaching three courses this semester, loving my 1/2 classroom by day and shoveling, shoveling, shoveling the 3 feet + of snow that has plagued the Northeast. Can we say seven snow days and school on two days during April vacation? Since last year, my school has had professional development on Accountable Talk across all subject areas. We want our learners to be thinkers--more than that. We want our…