We all look for ways to keep kids reading, and in the upper elementary and middle school grades, the struggle is real.  Fortnite is hard...

This book!   Kate Messner, you threw me a curve ball!   I was reading along, chuckling at some of the antics Charlie had gotten...

Are you sometimes surprised a couple of months in to school, to discover that a student doesn't know another student's name?  I ...

Let's be clear.  Breakfast is an important meal.  As teachers, if we don't get off to a good start, food-wise, it can have an impa...

Amal is a young girl growing up in the Punjabi province of Pakistan, in a town so small it doesn't even earn a dot on the map.  She is...

As a Reading teacher with a large library, I want to introduce students to my books, but I also want to start reading aloud to them.  Th...

Imagine having to plan your escape from your home.  You can't speak to anyone about it, but you know it will happen soon.  And it t...

Socratic Seminar is such a powerful tool to use with your students.  Once you teach them a few rules about how to engage with each other...

Have you ever done something that you thought would help someone?  Only the thing you did went all wrong?  Maybe, because you hadn't ...

If you could make yourself over - starting from scratch - what would you change about yourself? That's the underlying premise of...

Roseann Barr made the news a few weeks ago by comparing an African-American woman to a monkey.  That got me thinking about the kinds of th...

"Noooo!  Don't stop!"  Music to my ears.   I try to make time - about ten minutes - at the end of every clas...

"There is no military.  Because no one believes in war." "Our most important law is do not go out after 11:00 because bad t...