Mentoring in the Middle
It's embarrassing to admit:  How many times did I wish that elementary teachers had "just done their jobs" and taught students...
  Something caught my eye when I saw her.   With her hair parted on one side and her mouth open, that girl could have been me.  I wasn't...
"I hated it when you made me read last year.  But then, when we went to remote learning in the spring and over the summer, I got bored ...
When your students are excitedly chattering about what they're working on.   When they make things with stuff they've found arou...
K.A. Holt, author of House Arrest, Knockout, and  Rhyme Schemer has written a book that needs to be read.  She says it was a love letter to ...
                                                           My first year of teaching was in 2001.  I was a three-week-old teacher when terro...
  Your students don't know what hit them.  They've heard stories and rumors and wonderings.  How long will you be in school/remote/h...