My Thirty-Year Educational Crusade

Please join me in my celebration. Stories will be posted for every student contact day this school year. The first will be elementary stories and will cover my time as an elementary teacher at Montview. The remainder will be stories from my 21 years at Rangeview High School.

This will be my last post about the German Exchange for a while. This one I am writing this one now instead of using a previously published story. Relationships are the most cherished memories from the exchange.  The friends I have made make me long Read more
This was the final post from 2009. I will have a couple of more later in the year but this covers the serious and important stuff. I will talk about an American Consulate Guard almost shooting me and a French Monkey later! July 12, 2009 Read more
I have been a Billy Joel fan and this is a look back at high school for both of us. https://youtu.be/a_XgQhMPeEQ Read more
This is the post after visiting the Graduation Ceremony for the Heimschule Lender. June 28, 2009 Last night we had the chance to see the ceremony for the students that have successfully completed the Arbitur. It is the test for school completion in Germany. The Read more
June 24, 2009 Did I mention that I am afraid of heights? Yesterday we went to Europa Park. I had a chance to ride three of the 5 roller coasters. The other two had very long lines and we were in one for a while Read more
Another post from our trip in 2009. Leipzig was a great adventure and our time there was memorable beyond belief. To walk in the steps of history was humbling. July 03, 2009  Our next adventure was to get from Achern to Leipzig and to our Read more
Theatre at the Heimschule Lender Another post from our exchanges. This one is from the theatre show we saw put on by the students. Last night I had the honor of attending a performance of a student musical at the school. It was a play Read more
Berlin - 2009 I am doing some blogs from our German Exchange. Here is our first trip to Berlin. The next day we tried again with the train and it worked perfectly. Well almost! The trip there was perfect but on the way back the Read more
This one is done on spring break but I have so many I can't afford to miss a week. I have been lucky in my classes to have students that have gone on to do great things. Many will not be celebrities but they will Read more
Bodensee  I am adding blog posts from my trips to Germany for the exchange. This story is about our trip to the Bodensee 2014 Thursday morning we left for the Bodensee with all of our students and our hosts. It was an experience in public Read more
Of the trips I have taken, this was the hardest day. We went to the Struthof Concentration camp. Prisoners here worked at a quarry about a kilometer away. The post was short but the pictures were more powerful. I have added a link to the Read more
I love to walk and enjoy nature and sites. I was to learn that a walk in Germany means something completely different. Here is a post I did in 2009: June 22, 2009, By: Randy Mills  I was informed this morning of what is considered Read more