Teacher, Teacher, I Declare!

During the last few weeks of school, I've had more teachers in my room than I've ever had before. (Well, without food being involved...

You know the drill.  I was so hoping that I was making progress.  It was too good to be true. We had spent a week or so discussing the his...

Our students may be unusual in that they have a very limited vocabulary.  (Somehow, I can't imagine that we are the only school whose st...

So far... *Two days were spent with my fellow English colleagues working on Common Core Standards.  We are developing a check list of stan...

Unusual seating arrangements call for an unusual seating chart.  I talked about group arrangements here .  I knew my creative young coll...

Tomorrow is our first day of school.  We're on a short schedule, but there is just enough time for one quick lesson. Lesson # 1- ...

Who needs a back to school nightmare when I'm living it?? First of all, I found this on the floor of my classroom, just waiting to be ...