Eric E Castro

Urban sprawl is bad; intellectual sprawl is good


    Talking about Love, Reflections and Delay

    One of the primary motivators for beginning this reflection blog was an amazing end-of-year experience with my AP Psychology students this year. It turned out to be quite moving, emotionally. To be honest, my eyes glassed over, and my voice began to …

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    Let's make better mistakes tomorrow

    My first post was an introduction to the the title of the blog, Intellectual Sprawl, and its purpose. This explains the subtitle, the motto, the blog’s description. It’s based on this piece by Mike Monteiro:

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    As with many jobs, teaching is about …

    Intellectual Sprawl

    Sitting around in the Psych classroom after school one day, three of us teachers began kicking around the idea of creating blogs in which to reflect on our teaching and our learning. This blog is the product of that conversation.

    The title of the …

    25 Things

    This was originally posted to Facebook, but since Facebook might not always be around, I wanted to have a copy on a digital property that I own.


    This has taken me a week to write (see #14).

    Christina threw me a party for my 35th birthday and it was …