At the end of the year, I often get a gift card or two from my students to purchase new books.  They know how much I encourage reading and t...

Does anyone remember that show?  Or maybe the book?  I think it was a radio show, or maybe an early TV show?  Not sure. But I thought abou...

How do you manage your classroom library?  For years, I've had a checkout system where kids wrote their names and the book checked out i...

Always looking for new ways to engage kids in deeper, more analytical thinking, I decided about a month ago to have them read a short, two-p...

I was telling a colleague about a great couple of days I'd been having with my students as we tweaked a way they were responding to open...

I hope 2015 is a good year for you!  I was looking at a friend's facebook post yesterday and she proclaimed 2014 her best year yet.  And...

Did you have a good Thanksgiving?  Are you still enjoying the bliss of a much-needed longer break this Fall?  I know I am!   I've been...