Let the games begin.

disclaimer: 

So sick of typing I so frequently that I decided to write in the third person.

Let the Games Begin

He spent the summer fired up about how he was going to really make a different set of choices when it came to his health and wellbeing. He would take more long walks, often at night with a face dimly illuminated by my phone. Playing Pokemon Go quickly became an obsession, a crazy spike in interest with everyone talking about it and in the absence of the structure of school he let it control him.

On any normal day, the weather may be fair to great, but the scenery around is still beautiful especially in the lush green of a Wisconsin summer but the man would seldom be found outside before augmenting the reality of the activity of being outdoors was an option. Because of this game on his phone. The young man would cruise around the city on roller blades with a cell phone in hand (which in hindsight may not have been a very wise combination), at night he would go for hour long strolls. A compulsion to play the game kept me going strong... at least for a while. That was until it became a grind much like other games and choices had to be made.

Time for a new game... Classcraft

The young man is determined to play a new game. He takes the beginning weeks of his new job to set up ground rules for the game, mechanics and get his students interested in it but when the beginning of week three starts there is real magic that starts happening. A note of enthusiasm is found especially amongst the students of Geometry that quickly realize that their teacher is interested in having fun and making sure that students find the class equal parts enjoyable as well as educational. Many choose to play and sign the hero pact

The young man prepares (math) curricular lessons but guises the soft skills that students need actively rewarding problem-solving, participation, and question asking all things that teachers crave in their classes. Collaboratively teams work to push each other to better students, giving the opportunity for each student to have roles in their team. Some groups are more cohesive than others, more amicable and keen on helping on another achieve success. It truly brings a smile to the young man's face to see students share an enthusiasm for learning that parallels his enthusiasm to teach his students.