There were times when I wished I'd never shared this thought with my Assistant Principal.  When I wondered why (for the umpte...

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Photo credit: Brent Johnson, Newark Star-Ledger This post is not about whether you voted for Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton.  It'...

I was chaperoning a movie night at school on Friday, and a former students approached me.  "Do you have a copy of Divergent that I ...

It all started with a question.  "Has the electoral college/popular vote split ever benefitted Democrats?"  This was regarding T...

This is the first of a two-part series about how to get kids to write more.  And better. I'll be the first to admit I've been sl...

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I didn't think I would fall in love with this book as much as I did.  Jason Reynolds, who wrote All American Boys (one of the books b...

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When I first read about what Kyle Schwartz, a third grade teacher from Denver, had done with her students a few years back, I was amazed ...

What a great first week of school it's been!  Exhausting and fun, kids like bright, shiny new pennies, smiling and mostly eager to be ba...

In two previous blogposts, I wrote about the need to know your students reading readiness and interests (you can read about that { here }...

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