If I said it once I've said it twice. I am not a fan of summer time. I feel lost. Adjusting to this down time is foreign. From August...

I am not one to re-decorate my whole classroom year after year nor do I want to pour unlimited amount of money into my classroom. So here i...

I do what I want. There is a select group of students who think they can do what they want. In fact these words have even escaped their...

There is no denying that student teacher relationship is a vital component to classroom success. Ignoring this fact would be foolish. I k...

I love teaching figurative language. I could spend a entire year diving into figurative language goodness. Well that might be an exaggera...

Testing is not teaching Testing is not learning A student is more than a test score A teacher is more than a test score Unfortunate...

Keeping track of who did and who did not write an essay can become quite a chore. I created this board in the back of the classroom. Each...

Social media plays a key role in today's society. It's the new form of communication. By now everything has been given a hashtag. E...

Towards the end of the year I was in an IEP meeting. We were discussing a student's success in all of their classes when someone said, ...

Send me to the principals office  I heard this phrase one too many times over the past year. This phrase can change to: Just write m...

I have an irrational fear when it comes to homophones. I have mistaken your vs. you're a few too many times I care to admit. Scanning...

Test scores are funny. Especially state tests. You work all year for these tests and then once you are done taking them you have to wait ...

This past year I had a pottery reading from a mimic poem that they wrote. A mimic poem is when students are influence by a previously wri...

The day that Apple rolled out the new emoji keyboard created quiet a buzz in the classroom. 🐝So much so that we may have downloaded th...

This past year was the year the cell phone invaded the classroom. I have never had so much cell phone activity than this past year. One t...