Pomegranate beginnings

Recently, I posted about Monday tips and tricks and included John Piazza's weekly schedule. Last week, John Foulk, my colleague and fri...

I have started and deleted many a post on Free Voluntary Reading (FVR). In fact, I have a draft sitting there which goes through the last 3 ...

This is usually me. This is just a quick post to offer some ideas on classroom organization and design, because I have often found that ...

I am very excited to write this post. This is something that I've been working on since we decided to switch to Standards Based Grading:...

This year, I am starting out at a new school after 5 1/2 years in a single school. This pre-planning week has been a whirlwind of informatio...

So this year as I prepared to put up my usual decorations in my classroom (about which I was unusually ecstatic, but that's another st...

I'm experimenting in my class.  Again.  I've experimented on my poor students since that fateful first day when I sat uncomfortably...