Have you ever encountered grumbling from students that sounds like, "Why do we have to learn about this?  We're never going to use ...

  Have you been to all 50 states?  I've taken road trips to 35-40 states and I'm always blown away by the majesty of states that loo...

  By the time you get to the 5th or 6th grades, reading fluency gets less attention than it does at the primary level.  But you don't wa...

Holly-Mei has recently moved with her family from Toronto, Canada to Hong Kong because of her mother's new - and pretty high-pressure j...

  How did I manage to miss this book when it came out in October 2020?   A friend lent me a copy to read, recently.   And this is not one yo...

 I went for a walk in the park the other day and I was thinking about how beautiful the day was.  That got me thinking about how my students...

A year or so ago, I reread  Summer of the Monkeys  by Wilson Rawls.  And fell in love with the book all over again.  Rawls captures boy-inno...