"Which would you rather have, a dog or a cat?"  Students start murmuring while I draw a Venn diagram on the board.   "Okay, h...

Your students love talking with you - they'll tell you when their dog had puppies, when their grandparents are coming to visit, and when...

  Tip:  There are so many things to like about Dry by Neal Shusterman, and if heart-pounding action is what you're looking for, it's...

  Tip:  Teaching Main Idea and Detail strategies should be simple in upper elementary or middle school, right?  It will be if you grab this ...

Do you enjoy history?  I get fascinated imagining how people, back in the day, did the things they did with the tools they had.  Do you?  I ...

It's embarrassing to admit:  How many times did I wish that elementary teachers had "just done their jobs" and taught students...

  Something caught my eye when I saw her.   With her hair parted on one side and her mouth open, that girl could have been me.  I wasn't...

"I hated it when you made me read last year.  But then, when we went to remote learning in the spring and over the summer, I got bored ...

When your students are excitedly chattering about what they're working on.   When they make things with stuff they've found arou...

K.A. Holt, author of House Arrest, Knockout, and  Rhyme Schemer has written a book that needs to be read.  She says it was a love letter to ...

                                                           My first year of teaching was in 2001.  I was a three-week-old teacher when terro...