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Lately, a recurring question has shown up in my email: how do I survive the end of the school year? I’ll be super honest and tell my readers that on…

Sure, the winter blues might be a cliche, but as a teacher, I need help. I live in Illinois and last weekend, we had over ten inches of snow. I…

Melissa (from Reading and Writing Haven) and I decided to tackle building professional relationships within schools. I’ve blogged for years about my ideas – always with the caveat that these…

Download the complete language arts freshmen curriculum. Then… read below to understand the process behind the lesson plans. When I created this language arts freshmen curriculum, I started with the…

Weight training… taught me about teaching? It did. For my birthday last year, my husband asked me what I wanted. He almost bought me a purse, but he wasn’t sure.…

Building an online presence as an educator? Great, welcome! Teachers collaborate on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and with blogs. What you post as an educator and what you post on a…

Senior pranks convey the wrong message about our school system. I don’t consider dress-up days (Hawaiian shirts) or matching bracelets senior pranks. Those activities are typically coordinated with the school,…

Teachers deal with educational naysayers. Their responses can shape how the public perceives teachers and the public school system.  Public education has a situation that exists simple from its arrangement.…

Use the textbook and its accompanying activities? I do too. In the back of classroom closets and grungy basements sits the accompanying material to the teacher textbook. You know what I…

Use a worksheet as a teacher? I do.  Teachers, they get bombarded with messages, with trends. Education faces waves of best practices, of new ideas, fresh implementations. Without thinking for…