Well, the Summer of 2017 is almost 2/3 done, and it has been very productive. My son did 4 hours of summer enrichment classes (STEM, video production, engineering) for the first 4.5 weeks of summer, so that was 4 hours of work time I got each day while he was at school. I had one main goal for this time that I got to work: entirely revamp my AP Calculus class; I haven't been happy with how I've had the class structured the past couple years, and student success has been inconsistent, at best, in my eyes. I needed to change. This coming year will be my 18th year of teaching, and my 17th year of teaching AP Calculus (I was out of the classroom during the 2015-16 school year in a district instructional coaching role). In that time, I've had some tremendous successes with my students, but it's getting farther and farther away. I haven't been able to place a finger on it fully, but it just seems that over the past 8-10 years, we've struggled more and ...