In keeping with my theme of short group activities (can two days be a theme?), here's another one that's been really successful. B...

So over a year ago I posted about using brightly colored take-out boxes (available at your local craft store) for project supplies, and pro...

I do like using bell ringers - you know, those little writing prompts or activities at the beginning of class that get kids thinking about w...

A souvenir from my days of teaching junior high. This was an unprompted note: My recollection is she was very sweet for about two d...

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...

I'm taking the lead from Michelle over at Big Time Literacy and completing today's Big Time Blogging Challenge: Maintaining Teacher ...

Have you heard of Docs Teach ? It's an online tool hosted by the National Archives that holds thousands of primary documents (and pictur...

I've been thinking about some of the mistakes that I made as a first year teacher: partly inspired by a "Reflections" post I r...

One of the first questions I'm always asked related to my former teaching career is "Don't you miss having summers off?" T...