All of us have our pet peeves that find their way into our classroom rules and procedures, and it varies from person to person. For example,...

A couple weeks ago I wrote about a few of my first year mistakes , #1 being that I assumed my students knew more than they did. Flipping thr...

Here's another tip from the department of the obvious, yet took me a while to figure out that I actually needed to implement this proced...

This particular post falls under the category of “Taking Care of You.” This time of year our hands tend to get really torn up: between the ...

A year and a half ago or so I posted about a job wheel I created to assign miscellaneous tasks that need to be completed after each cooking...

Over the summer I posted about trying out pie bags , and today was my first opportunity to see them in action in the classroom. Epic success...

Okay, I get that this is becoming borderline psychotic, but here's my latest classroom kitchen upgrade: And now for the close-ups: ...

If you're a fan of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," you know that the title of this post comes from Sally's big num...

I'm borrowing an idea from " The Clutter-Free Classroom " blog, which has a series on helpful classroom items that she finds a...

So I've been putting a lot of time into deep-cleaning my new kitchens (again), and I thought I'd share a few insights. Yesterday I p...

The last time I worked at my new school, I used grant money to purchase brand new KitchenAid stand mixers for all of the kitchens (did the s...

Pies. I love 'em. I love getting to teach pie-making in foods class - if there's anything 'retro' about Family & Consume...

This weekend held my last still-trying-to-clean-out-my-classrooms-Saturday of the year. We have one more weekend left before the last day of...

Another invaluable find from my classroom: The writing on the masking tape reads "May 75 - Complete." This was found in a ...

One of my pet peeves is when measuring cups and spoons are thrown pell-mell into a drawer; it's messy and it takes the kids about ten ti...

As I mentioned the other day, this week I started my 6th curriculum rotation of the school year. It's been interesting teaching each sub...

Appetizing title, eh? Here's how we deal with draining grease in my cooking classes (I actually learned this from my husband, who of cou...

One of the problems with sewing projects is that threads tend to take over the floor. My solution is this – baby formula trash cans! Take em...

There are a few extra tasks that need to be completed during cooking lab clean-up that fall outside of the individual kitchens, and I much p...

One thing that all new Family & Consumer Science teachers learn within their first two cooking labs is that if you put a full bottle of ...