At last year's TpT conference, I  became sadly aware that my presence on social media was pretty nonexistent.  When I got home, I dove...

Keywords.  Keyword stuffing.  Search engine optimization.  The importance of using keywords. There is a ton of stuff out there on t...

Ever since reading Donalyn Miller's The Book Whisperer, I have challenged my students each year to read at least 25 books.  We p...

As the school year winds down, I find myself thinking about all the projects my students worked on this year.  Good learning worked both w...

Last year, a colleague and I received a grant to have all the students in 5th and 6th grades read the same two books.  We started with Fish ...

There were times when I wished I'd never shared this thought with my Assistant Principal.  When I wondered why (for the umpte...

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Photo credit: Brent Johnson, Newark Star-Ledger This post is not about whether you voted for Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton.  It'...

I was chaperoning a movie night at school on Friday, and a former students approached me.  "Do you have a copy of Divergent that I ...

It all started with a question.  "Has the electoral college/popular vote split ever benefitted Democrats?"  This was regarding T...

This is the first of a two-part series about how to get kids to write more.  And better. I'll be the first to admit I've been sl...

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