May 8, 2018
March 28, 2018
It’s frustrating when your students are constantly misbehaving in order to get your attention or the attention of their classmates.…
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January 5, 2018
In 2015, I started out with a great group of third grade students. I knew many of the students as…
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January 1, 2018
I’ve talked to a lot of teachers about using Socratic seminars in class, a lesson format in which students take…
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December 5, 2017
Some of the most impactful learning comes from activities that allow students to speak their minds and volunteer their own…
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November 30, 2017
Getting kids to sit still for six hours a day is an almost impossible task! In the lower grades, recess…
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October 30, 2017
In the wake of school violence, suicide and a host of other social problems that plague children and youth, teachers…
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October 30, 2017
As a fourth grade social studies teacher I am often faced with comments such as, “History is so boring! How…
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October 19, 2017
Our students may not watch the news with the same kind of habitual regularity as their parents (or our parents)…
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September 26, 2017
When I hit my fifth year of teaching, I felt pretty confident. I’d worked in three different schools, from inner-city…
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September 15, 2017
Early on in my teaching career, I recognized that while students were expected to take on more responsibility in high…
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August 23, 2017
I remember when, in my first year of teaching, I decided that Fahrenheit 451 would be a good choice for…
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August 18, 2017
The first day of school is fast approaching, and with it, the question of what you’re going to do on…
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August 16, 2017
As teachers, we all want our students to be organized. We want them to be able to find any supply…
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August 15, 2017
Maybe you saw the first one in mid-July, or just a few days ago. Maybe you saw it in early July,…
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July 28, 2017
Love them or hate them, fidget toys are one of the latest fads to storm the world of education. These little…
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July 13, 2017
If you work in a school, you probably know what a fidget spinner is. You may have even seen other…
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June 5, 2017
One of the things I truly enjoy about teaching is that I also enjoy learning, and decades into my teaching…
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April 1, 2017
Teacher burnout. Unfortunately, this is too common in our profession. I think back over my years of teaching and think…
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