Middle School Matters
By Troy Patterson, Shawn McGirr
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MSM-Middle School Matters is designed for Middle School Educators. We focus on the Middle School educators. Providing news, conversation on relevant topics, and links to other great sites, we want to reach out to other middle school educators. Join in the discussion at MiddleSchoolMatters.com
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MSM 647: Self-Regulate to Success!
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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MSM 645: ChatGPT and Crestfallen Faces
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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MSM 645: ChatGPT and Crestfallen Faces
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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MSM 644: AI Options for Teachers
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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MSM 643: Thirty-Seven Google Form Submissions Later . . .
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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MSM 683: Going Bananas on AI
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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MSM 682: To The Annoyance of Everybody Else . . .
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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MSM 681: Cyrano for Christmas
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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MSM 680: Fight the Good Fight, But There Will Be Losses
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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MSM 642: New Words and Music for Hall Duty
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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MSM 679: Finding the Right Cudgel
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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MSM 641: Why We Don’t Let Mathematicians Rule the World
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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MSM 640: Get Your Own Dave Bydlowski
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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MSM 678: Socratic Mentorship
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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MSM 639: Cussed and Discussed on a Pork Roll
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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MSM 638: AI for You and Me and Students
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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MSM 637: Earth, Wind and Fire Day Sweeps Through Troy
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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MSM 677: You, Hallway, Now.
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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MSM 636: No Pets, No Plants, No People
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Sep 14, 2025 |
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MSM 676: Forty Kids In The Club
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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MSM 635: What Do You Call A Group of Eighth Grade Girls?
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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MSM 675: Personality vs. AI
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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MSM 674: Can’t Catfish With A Calculator
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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MSM 634: The Stable of Instructional Support
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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MSM 633: The Hauls of Learning
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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MSM 673: Problems vs. Puzzles
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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MSM 672: Starting With Something Tangible
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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MSM 671: The Best Warnings Ever!
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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MSM 632: AI for the IEP
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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MSM 631: At Work, But Not Working
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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MSM 670: The English Teachers are the Exceptions
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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MSM 630: No Boobs, Butts, or Bellies!
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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MSM 669: Red Panda Travel Buddy
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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MSM 629: Shawn’s SQL Smile
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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MSM 668: ISTE Shiny Things: Product or Pedagogy?
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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MSM 628: The Standards Are The Same
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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MSM 627: Ennui, Embarrassment, Envy, and Anxiety
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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MSM 667: Ouiji(PT)
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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MSM 626: I Need More Information and Sometimes You Have to Check, Ya Know?
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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MSM 666: Spending The Shekels to Keep Up
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Jun 14, 2025 |
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MSM 625: The Final Throes
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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MSM 665: Unferhoodled
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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MSM 624: Manassas? How Did We End Up In Manassas?
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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MSM 664: Choose Your Own AI Adventure
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May 31, 2025 |
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MSM 663: Making the Lunch Ladies Cry
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May 24, 2025 |
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MSM 662: Humans in the Loop
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May 17, 2025 |
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MSM 623: Talking Tik-Toky and Spicy Bees
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May 11, 2025 |
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MSM 661: The Law of Unintended Lessons
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May 10, 2025 |
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MSM 660: The Dangers of Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) and Seventh Graders
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May 03, 2025 |
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MSM 659: AEIOU and Sometimes Y I Didn’t Pay
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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MSM 658: Teacher’s Artistry
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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MSM 657: I Trusted the Student . . . I Held Out My Hand
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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MSM 656: Taking The Thinking Out of the Teacher
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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MSM 655: Haiku Clues!
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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MSM 654: Shout Out to the Cough Button
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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MSM 653: A Bunch of Reprobates
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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MSM 652: Six Things or AI Will Stupify Our Kids
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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MSM 651: Dirty, Sneaky, Mean and Evil
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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MSM 650: Boardwalk French Fries
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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MSM 649: The Details Require Thinking; I’ve Already Made Up My Mind
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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MSM 648: Vacation Work
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Jan 04, 2025 |
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MSM 609: Scurryfunge Songs
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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MSM 608: Bayardism - It’s Going to Hit This Week
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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MSM 607: Rememble This, Or Not . . .
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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MSM 606: What are you thinking about, The Roman Empire or AI?
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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MSM 605: A Precipitous Decline of Creativity
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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MSM 604: Hot Stuff Inside the Fish Bowl
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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MSM-603_Waldorf_Statler
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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MSM 602: Unboxing the Runcible Spoon
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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MSM 601: Sad News, Hastings Has Posted An Obituary
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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MSM 600: It’s All About AI
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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MSM 599: Ipsedixitist, Peninkulma
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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MSM 598: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches!
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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MSM 597: Goblin Tools, not just for the Cafeteria!
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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MSM 596: Orange Agronomist
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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MSM 595: Kanso or NoKanso?
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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MSM 594: Brim’Tud Will Be Easier Than Puggle!
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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MSM 593: The Exact Right Size to Not Be Useful
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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MSM 592: Scrolling Like A Boomer
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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MSM 591: Filled With Prosody
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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MSM 590: Stitches and Staples
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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MSM 589: The Most Organized Chaos I’ve Ever Seen
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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MSM 588: Easy Grader and Overhead Transparencies
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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MSM 587: Meanderthals, or 7th Graders?
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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MSM 586: The Nightingale Floor
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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MSM 585: A Fit of the Clevers!
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May 27, 2023 |
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MSM 584: Pink Shirts on the Elevators
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May 20, 2023 |
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MSM 583: Quiddle or Spring Fever
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May 13, 2023 |
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MSM 582: When Speaking in Spammish, Shouldn’t There Be An Accent?
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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MSM 581: Slinging the Slang Making Us Thirsty!
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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MSM 580: I Get What They Are Trying to Do, But “Oh, My Goodness”
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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MSM 579: The Nintendo Effect - Brutally Honest!
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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MSM 578: There’s A Lot In That Question . . .
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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MSM 577: Hoisted on my Own Petard
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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MSM 576: Teaching Chrome: Ipsedixitism
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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MSM 575: The Day That Didn’t Count
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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MSM 574: Farpotshket
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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MSM 573: Defenestrate Your Way To Safety
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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MSM 572: That’s Great . . . Until You Get the Humans Involved!
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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MSM 571: Industrial PD Day!
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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MSM 570: Drop A Little NOLEJ on Yourself.
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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MSM 569: The Principal Might Not Know, But The Kid Down the Hall Does!
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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MSM 568: Fantasy World of Wonder and Danger OR Middle School
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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MSM 567: 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. – Normal Working Hours for Middle School
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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MSM 566: Just A Minute, I have to Word It Right in Chat GPT...
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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MSM 565: Do You Know Where the Fire Escape Goes To? I Do…
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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MSM 564:Beauty is in the A.I. of the Beholder
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Nov 19, 2022 |
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MSM 563:Opening the Glory Box and AMLE 22
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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MSM 562: The English Teacher is Cheating!
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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MSM 561: The Full Moon Experience
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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MSM 560: Under Pressure
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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MSM 559: I Can Read It, I Just Can’t Write It
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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MSM 558: I’m The Problem
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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MSM 557: English Teachers Catch On About Week Ten
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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MSM 556: Rules Quiz and Your Parents
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Sep 10, 2022 |
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MSM 555: Jennifer Fryzel’s Vocabulary Pyramid
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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MSM 554: The Correct Way to Spell GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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MSM 553: Much of Life Blocks Much Of Life is Sorting Blocks
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Jul 02, 2022 |
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MSM 552: Mental Health Day
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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MSM 551: Shouldn’t That Just Be Called Falafel?
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Jun 18, 2022 |
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MSM 550: Spuddling Along
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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MSM 549: Drop Your Backpack, You’re At Home
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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MSM 548: 135 Critical Voices
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May 28, 2022 |
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MSM 547: Romantic AI and Transescents Today
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May 21, 2022 |
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MSM 546: We Don’t Say That Outloud
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May 14, 2022 |
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MSM 545: Full Participation
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May 07, 2022 |
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MSM 544: This is Our Villain Arc!
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Apr 30, 2022 |
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MSM 543: Creating Drama . . . With a Flip Phone and the Button That Says, “Mom.”
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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MSM 542: Summer is Coming
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Apr 16, 2022 |
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MSM 541: That New Software Smell
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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MSM 540: Nobody Crosses Chuck Norris
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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MSM 539: Sap Risin’ Time!
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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MSM 538: Can We Crash This Episode On Your Couch?
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Mar 12, 2022 |
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MSM 537: It’s One Button
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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MSM 536: Law of Unintended Consequences
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Feb 19, 2022 |
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MSM 535: I’ll Buy the Cake, You Eat It . . . or the Cepelani
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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MSM 534: Teaching All Day Not Enough, We’ve Got a Plan
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Feb 05, 2022 |
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MSM 533: If You Swing a Cursor, You’ll Hit an Assignment . . .
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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MSM 532: Testing Waltz . . . The Warm-Up to the Ballet
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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MSM 531: The Trees That They See Are In a Different Forest
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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MSM 530: I’ve Been To China, No TikTok for Me
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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MSM 529: They’re Decorating the Hall, But We’re Decorating Our Brains!
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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MSM 528: Take Your Victories Where You Can…like Maybe British Columbia
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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MSM 527: Squid Games . . .We Got You Mr. McGirr
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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MSM 526: But It Says, “Pro” . . .
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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MSM 525: Put the Kids in Rows and See How it Goes
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Nov 20, 2021 |
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MSM 524: The Teachers Are Just Like the Students
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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MSM 523: Add This To Your Saddle Bag
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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MSM 522: Spaced Practice!
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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MSM 521: Swivl Me Timbers, I’m a Textrovert!
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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MSM 520: Friday at 3:00
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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MSM 519: I’m Calling Lin Manuel Right Now!!
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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MSM 518: And This is How I Find Out If They Read It or Not!
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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MSM 517: Part of a Greater Strategy for Taking Over The World
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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MSM 516: Hot Pot, Quail Eggs, And Going To The Can
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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MSM 515: Here we go all caught in 4K!
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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MSM 514: Project Laissez-Faire
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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MSM 513: Don’t Fall For the House Flipper
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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MSM 512: I Suspect That This is English, But I’ve Got Nothin'. . .
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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MSM 511: It’s Really Not a Rhetorical Question
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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MSM 510: Šaltibarščiai, Bringing You Culture for Over a Decade
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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MSM 509: Almost Summer, Technology Tips, and a Lousy Thesaurus
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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MSM 508: Listen to this: Dark Patterns, Gone Medieval, and Professional Development Changes
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May 22, 2021 |
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MSM 507: Creating the Space for that to Happen . . . with some Malapropisms
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May 08, 2021 |
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MSM 506: We’re All for JMJ on iTunes and everywhere, Games, Games, Games
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May 01, 2021 |
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MSM 505: Same Pig, Different Lipstick
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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MSM 504: Underestimating the Plague
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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MSM 503: Two is plural; Just Between You, Me, and Every Listener
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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MSM 502: Expectations, Bad Influence, Moneyball for Education, “You What…”
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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MSM 501: Door Prize, Field Trip, Paraphrasing, Interstitially.
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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MSM 500: Where The Swear Words Are...This is Instantly Wild...not just once but 500 times and counting
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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MSM 499: Whistle, not while you work, but at home and on Video
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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MSM 498: Pin and Click - You told on yourself
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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MSM 497: TicToc Pasta Dancing Down By the Bayeux
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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MSM 496: Crisis or Opportunity
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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MSM 495: Online Learning is the New Coke
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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MSM 494: Just Don’t Break Federal Law
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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MSM 493: Day, Night, Hold on a Minute (or 59 seconds)
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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MSM 492: Insta is the new Santa?
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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MSM 491: France is Bacon...Another Lie I Tell Future Me.
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Dec 26, 2020 |
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MSM 490: The Blob Opera, Can I get you off task….
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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MSM 489: It’s a 50/50 . . .
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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MSM 488: The Fungus, Among Us...
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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MSM 487: Linguee-knee and Its Raining in Germany
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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MSM 486: We’ve done too much with sowing Discord.
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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MSM 485: Copy/Copy/Copy Conundrum - My Evil Twin
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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MSM 484: Digital Learning - It’s about time.
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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MSM 483: Straight to Lazy . . .
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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MSM 482: Kitchen Culture
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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MSM 481: Things That I Don’t Talk About with The Other 7th Grade Teachers
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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MSM 480: Now when you hear the creaking, it’s just my bones!
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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MSM 479: Ditch That...Empire
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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MSM 478: Back from 7-11. . .
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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MSM 622: Taylor Swift and Rick Rolling
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 621: 90 Minutes to Learn
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 620: “Oh the Times! Oh the Morale!”
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 619: Lets’ Do An ELL AI Called “Larry”
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 618: What Means This “Over Achievery?”
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 617: Middle School - The Island of Misfit Toys
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 616: You Can Also Use Your Face
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 615: The Bisontennial
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 614: Confabulation, Constultation, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 613: I’m Just Gonna Put You Over Here
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 612: Lies That 7th Graders Tell
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 611: Faster Than the Columbus Method
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Jan 01, 1970 |
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MSM 610: Satisfying The Friend Requirement
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Jan 01, 1970 |