Stayed up late last night learning and creating a Nearpod lesson. Used it in first period. I used a teacher led lesson. I had the kids early with a good hook on cell cycle and cancer. They were into it early but I began to lose them on cell cycle notes. So many students are undisciplined, is this right? Is it the students or is it the environment that they have grown up in?

I work at a Title I school - I have only ever worked in a Title I school. The free/reduced lunch rate here is 70%+. Mostly Latino with 25% African-American and very few Whites or Asian students.

Reflection on the Nearpod Lesson: I either need to give them the notes, give them fill in the blank notes, or let those that can do and those that can't or won't fail. The real world would be the last option but public school isn't the real world. It's some sort of strange communist world were every student must be given the same, equal opportunity. Unfortunately this usually means that kids on the lower end of the motivation scale that should fail, don't and the kids at the top of the motivation scale rarely get ahead. In some ways the system is broke, in other ways our students are broke.