A Day in the Life

The first Tuesday of each month, we have professional development sessions. In one of our sessions today, we had to complete a self-assessme...

 Dear Students, I walked down the hall today and saw this sign on our Student of the Week board. It made me sad because it is not the first ...

Moving my way down the aisle at the grocery store, I see a family trying to corral a toddler. As she climbs on top of the stocked cases of p...

I have been reading  Inkwell:  Simple Writing Practices to Restore Your Soul  by Anne Elrod Whitney. She writes and explains how writing pra...

Pivot.   Does this word take you back to 2020? Bring back memories? Make you shudder?  This was the buzz word during the pandemic because it...

Sometimes I hear about decisions in different school systems that are made that leave me scratching my head. I know that teachers don't ...

When I look at my teaching career, I see many fingerprints of others embedded in my practices. Kelly Gallager, Penny Kittle, Ruth Ayres, and...

    1 presentation - 4 days   =  lots of stress not finished yet                      I have had several deadlines this month...and yes I kn...

Reflection is a big part of my teaching life. I try to show my students the importance of reflection and how we can use that reflection to m...

  I recently introduced my middle schoolers to the Notice and Note Signposts from Kylene Beers and Bob Probst. When teaching the contrasts a...

Seven years ago, I left the elementary school where I had been an aide and a substitute teacher, and where I began my career as a 4th-grade ...

I finished up my 14th school year last Friday. It was a year like no other, yet it went so much better than what any of imagined. Back in A...

  Join  Two Writing Teachers  and other teacher-writers as we share a slice of life every single day in the month of March. "You must h...

Join  Two Writing Teachers  and other teacher-writers as we share a slice of life every single day in the month of March. Have you ever wond...

  Join  Two Writing Teachers  and other teacher-writers as we share a slice of life every single day in the month of March. I used to love T...

Join  Two Writing Teachers  and other teacher-writers as we share a slice of life every single day in the month of March.   Pivot.  Does thi...

  Join  Two Writing Teachers  and other teacher-writers as we share a slice of life every single day in the month of March.   When I began t...

I am participating in the  Two Writing Teachers  Annual March Slice of Life Story Challenge.   March seems to be that time of year whe...

This week has been one of those weeks that seems like it had an extra day (or two).  One day we even found ourselves asking if there was a f...

I've been thinking about friends lately.  Not my friends.  But my students' friends. Or the ones who have none. My heart is ...