Nathalie Roy

The Year in Roman Technology: "Unhinged" Secret Messages People always ask, "What do teachers do during the summer?" Some actually work. In fact, I normally work at my school's summer camp. This ye...

It's summer break which means nerd research time!! My most recent #STEMinClassics nerd interest is cryptography. Any suggestions on what I should read in addition to the stuff listed in this blog post? Light me up, y'all! allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

Soooo…the Getty Villa will be reopened by then?

An even better listen!

Stepping into Hands-On History: Teaching Young Students How to Make Roman Leather Shoes YouTube video by EXARC

It was so weird seeing this video being played remotely in Brazil where the annual conference of EXARC is happening this week. I couldn't attend in person (due to cost) so I watched at home at my desk. My presentation about the Roman Shoe Project: youtu.be/uSFvbQOKVv8?...

Great book! I've been teaching a class called #RomanTechnology to middle school students for the past 7 years. It's the most popular elective at our school, and most of the students do not take Latin. We just finished making our own leather shoes too: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com

Thank you! This one is very similar to the one we ended up using! I’m saving it for future reference.

The Roman Shoe Project: The HEELing Art of Shoemaking I asked my Roman Technology students, "How many people can say they know someone who's actually made a pair of shoes?" Before I realized my ...

We are officially DONE with our Roman Shoe Project. Enjoy these pictures and parting thoughts 🖤⚒️: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

The Roman Shoe Project: SHOEperstars!! Y'all!!! Our shoes are done, but before I share pictures of our runway sho(w)e (LOL, get it?), I wanted to talk about the long process of bu...

The Roman Shoe Project is officially over! We did it, y'all!!! My #RomanTechnology students made their own Roman leather shoes. Here's a blog post about the process itself.
I'll have more exciting pics from our fashion sho(w)e (get it?) later. allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

The Roman Shoe Project: Tiny Animal Tracks One of the absolute cutest things I've ever seen at a Roman museum is this little leather scrap mouse. Found in a box of leather offcuts or ...

We've been super busy in #RomanTechnology class making stuff out of leather as part of our Roman Shoe Project. 🖤⚒️This lil leather mouse found at Vindolanda is the perfect inspiration for whimsy projects: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

The Roman Shoe Project: A Guest Speaker from Left Field At the beginning of the school year, our school district asked all teachers and students to take a RIASEC assessment. I had never heard of R...

Thanks to the GLOVE DOCTOR for talking to my students about his work with leather! #RomanTechnology 🖤⚒️ A wonderful guest speaker for our lessons during the Roman Shoe Project! allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

The Roman Shoe Project: Baby Steps with BULLAE With all the fascinating information out there about ancient Roman leather shoes, I knew that I would have plenty of lessons to share with m...

Our first ancient Roman leather working lesson, making our own Roman BULLAE, protective amulets. #RomanTechnology🖤⚒️ allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

The Roman Shoe Project: Stepping into Hands-on History I've been MIA from blogging for the past couple of months because this project has demanded my full attention. We have really been busy. Let...

I have been super busy over the past few months with a BIG project. I'm sure you're thinking, "Which one?" LOL. But this is the REAL one, right here: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Thanks to Roman shoe archaeologist, Dr. Beth Greene, for answering all my middle school students’ questions today about leather shoes!! #RomanTechnology 🖤⚒️

So proud of my #RomanTechnology students for creating their own Roman leather BULLAE and LUNULAE (ancient protective necklaces). We are halfway through our Roman Shoe Project so they are learning leather working skills through smaller projects first. 🖤⚒️

What were you using before?

#RomanTechnology #exarc Excited to get my copy!! 🖤⚒️

Pompeian pigments in little pots from the Pompeii Exhibition at Graceland. Blue=ground up lapis lazuli, purple=murex snail mucus, and red=Armenian lead. #RomanTechnology

Me amazed by the #RomanTechnology of this ancient Pompeian GLIRARIUM for fattening up dormice. Bigger than I thought it would be! At the POMPEII EXHIBITION at Graceland 🖤⚒️

Pompeii excavation unearths private spa for wooing wealthy guests Thermal bath complex is latest discovery among ruins of Italian city destroyed by Vesuvius eruption in AD79

At first I thought: imagine the conversations! And then I thought: actually, they were probably pretty mundane :) Regardless, an incredible find. #AncientBlueSky

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Congrats!!!

As the 2021 Louisiana State Teacher of the Year, I will always hold this program dear to my heart. Congrats to all the 2025 CCSSO State Teachers of the Year!! Shine bright!! ntoy.ccsso.org/introducing-...

This Year in Roman Technology: Celebrating the End of the Semester with Food Technology When I told my students that we would be studying Roman food processing and technology, they were super excited. Teenagers like to eat! It a...

IO SATURNALIA!!! I know all you classics peeps have been "whey"ting with baited breath to see how my Roman Technology students have been celebrating? Cheese! Cheese is the answer. And other exciting stuff too. Read here: allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2024/12/this...

A "Renewed" Issue: Why doesn't the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certify teachers of Latin (and other languages)? On an early December Saturday morning, bleary-eyed, after waiting for 8 months, I woke up to check my scores. When I was able to finally log...

Happy certification day to all new National Board Certified teachers! Despite my NBCT status, it's always one of mixed emotions for me because the @nbpts.bsky.social continues to deny certification possibility to teachers of Latin/Greek and others. allstemleadstorome.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-re...

Students love our #RomanTechnology class merch!! ⚒️🖤

#RomanTechnology students reproduced Cato the Elder’s grape must biscuits today! We’ll bake them on Friday on top of bay leaves. 🖤⚒️

The best early Saturnalia present just arrived in the mail, signed by its authors!!!! Objects have such wonderful stories to tell. #Vindolanda

Make Ancient Ink With The Help Of Oak Tree Parasites Bring history to life through biology and chemistry as you make iron oak gall ink like Leonardo da Vinci did.

Check out my SciFri
@scifri.bsky.social
article on making ancient ink from oak galls! 🖤⚒️ www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...

Interested in #HandsOnHistory and #making? Check out my starter pack: go.bsky.app/6f1TGXw

Today, it was #RomanTechnology students vs. grain. 💪🏻 We started our bread technology week today! ⚒️🖤