If you use Schoology as a platform at your school, you know that there are many things you can do with it.  It's a great platform fo...

Do you feel like your students no longer notice spelling and grammatical mistakes in their work?  Sometimes it feels like students have l...

Where did Dusti Bowling, the author, come up with this tremendously readable idea?! Aven was born "unarmed."  At home in Ka...

I love winter.  I love snow and the way it magically coats the earth.  I especially love when it stops the world for a while, and as a tea...

You've seen it before.  A student - okay - maybe a couple of students - look at you with that wide-eyed-deer-in-headlights look and sa...

It's 2019. Aren't we beyond this?  Why is our study of African-Americans limited to one month?  Why not introduce our stude...

Where does this author come up with all of his crazy-wonderful ideas?  From The Honest Truth  to Some Kind of Courage  to Scar Island (whi...

Historical fiction is sometimes a tough sell for upper elementary students.  It's not that they don't like the ideas, it'...

Several weeks ago, I wrote about helping students learn the five different styles of nonfiction writing.  This is so helpful for them to u...

A group of teachers and I are each taking two products apiece and putting them on sale on December 30th and 31st.  Click on either of the...

Remember doing math pages in school where you solved some kind of riddle?  I loved those!  They were fun and challenging, and you didn...

As you prepare your classroom  with Winter resources for next year (gulp! Will it really be 2019?) you're going to want to buy some ...

True confession.  Sometimes I feel like most other people "get it" when it comes to social media, and I'm late to the party.  ...

I wrote about my frustration with getting some of my students reading a few posts ago, and how Pernille Ripp's blog post reminded me t...

Last week, we spent a fair amount of time looking at nonfiction text structures, something that my students "sort of" knew. I ...