Which day of the year will you have all eyes on you?  The keenest students? The least amount of student misbehaviour?  The first day of...

I have posted this, or something similar, at the end of June before, but I always think it is a good time to think about it.  Or at...

Here are just a few things that I have seen lately that use drama or movement to help kids understand tricky concepts.  Students like to...

I must admit that I don’t love rubrics.  They take a long time to write and sometimes it is hard to know what they actually say, even...

At a workshop last week, the speaker reminded us that “student engagement” is not the same thing as “having fun”.  Student engagement is...

We know that in any given learning situation students arrive at different places.  When I first started my teaching career at the...

It being September, I had quite a few good conversations about diagnostic assessments this week.  Quite a few years ago, the practice...

Every year our board produces a video.    I got to watch it (twice) this week.    It is very good. One of the messages is about how our...

Do you create in your classroom a culture of “done” or do you create a culture of learning and improving?  A culture of “done” implies...

Differentiation, multiple entry points, small group instruction, individualized instruction, IEP’d students—how do we incorporate all of...

I am guilty, as a female, of reading mostly fiction.  So when someone asks what I am reading, I invariably default to the novel in which...