If You’re a Teacher or a Parent, You Should Get to Know Tim Griffin’s Music
The following is excerpted from an article on Ghost Writer – the Gray Man Blogs, by Gray Rinehart Last month I introduced my newsletter readers* to Tim Griffin, whose music … Read More
Notes from a Musical Nonprofit
A longtime Los Angeles Unified School District teacher with a proclivity for music, Griffin regularly wove music and performing arts into his lessons to grab students’ attention and reinforce core content standards. He penned clever songs covering everything from the American Revolution to zoology.
Eye On The Bay: Those Other Conventions Pt. 2
There are traditional conventions for medical, technology and business professionals – and then there are the “other ones”. Step inside a South Bay convention with hundreds of people dressed in … Read More
Six Leg Jump
Why exactly are spiders and other arachnids NOT insects? Both groups are arthropods, which is to say both classes have an exoskeleton rather than bones to hold the body together. … Read More
Natural Selection
Even in Los Angeles, I get several complaints each year from parents who don’t want me teaching their kids about evolution. Of course, teachers used to get the same complaints … Read More
National Debt
One of my colleagues challenged me to write a song about economics on the same day a first grader complained that I’d never written a song with a llama in … Read More