by Mark Greenelsh | Nov 14, 2023 | Notes from Greenelsh
My son will graduate high school this year. A few days ago he needed to submit a senior quote for the school yearbook. Usually the quote is advice for your peers or it highlights an aspect of your high school career. He had been thinking about a number of...
by Mark Greenelsh | Nov 5, 2023 | Notes from Greenelsh
This week my advisory students and I learned about the value of Applying Past Knowledge which is a discipline effective people practice. Recalling what you have learned, understanding the world around you, and then extending that experience to explore and address new,...
by Mark Greenelsh | Oct 29, 2023 | Notes from Greenelsh
I studied computer science in college and have written a variety of computer applications since then. When writing code that contains a repeated set of instructions or a “loop,” many times I would test that loop with a data set of three. Iterating through a loop twice...
by Mark Greenelsh | Oct 21, 2023 | Notes from Greenelsh
At the high school where I teach, we just started a new quarter of studies. Some of my students were disappointed in their schedule of classes, because the subject doesn’t seem interesting, the assignments will be hard, or they don’t have any friends as...
by Mark Greenelsh | Oct 15, 2023 | Notes from Greenelsh
This week I had three separate conversations about what it means to love. One was regarding a crisis in my extended family where my relatives are confused, lost, and needlessly suffering because they are looking for love in the wrong places. Another conversation was...
by Mark Greenelsh | Oct 8, 2023 | Notes from Greenelsh
As I write this, I’m traveling back from a memorial in Los Angeles for my grandfather. He just turned 100 years old before dying from poor health. At the ceremony I thought about what it means to live a long time and how to make the most of each day I am given. I...
