Pomegranate beginnings

I was looking back at my recent posts and realized I never linked the article I wrote (in December) over the war unit I did with my students...

I thought I'd do a quick write-up of something I found surprisingly effective; it's an activity for introducing vocabulary that I ca...

A student was fascinated by Agamemnon's mask and chose to recreate it in ceramic. I think I've talked about my love for Google b...

Dear Congressman or Congresswoman; Dear Mr. President; Dear Bill and Melinda Gates; Dear Arne Duncan; Dear Anyone Who Has Touched and Impact...

While this was my 6th full year (7th including all teaching time) teaching, this was my first year in a new school. Not only was the locatio...

One of the biggest challenges for a teacher using CI (quick overview here ) is providing the optimum number of repetitions so that vocabula...

This is a two day activity (it could easily be a three day activity or a one day activity with an upper level class) that I came up with to ...