I've just finished reading two excellent books for the middle grades, both of which would make thoughtful read-alouds. Crenshaw dea...

  I'm linking up with two blogs: Jen at Teach Mentor Texts , and Kellee at Unleashing Readers to share books that I've finished ...

I'm linking up with Joanne over at Head Over Heels for Teaching because her blog post got me thinking about what I do to get kids exc...

I keep trying to link up with DoodleBugs Teaching, but somehow Fridays just get by me. The best-laid plans.....Yup.  You understand. ...

I was in professional development meetings today.  Our students get the day off because of the annual fair in our community.  One of our mee...

I blogged about creating this minion board for the beginning of school.  Here's a before.  Doesn't he look a little lonely? And n...

"Would you like to read the book I'm writing?" asked a student last year.  And then another one.  And then a third, who wrote ...