Mentoring in the Middle
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 ...
This was one bizarre book!  But I loved it!  Think Lord of the Flies  meets Holes at Alcatraz.    When I handed this book off to my studen...
I love read-aloud time in my classroom.  It's one of my favorite things to do.  This is time for kids to sit back and listen to good ...