Inspired by Meg and Matt,  I'm listing ten things I do better than I did before. I teach middle school math, and ... 1) For the most par...

When my son Jack was in kindergarten, he had an amazing teacher.  I"ll call her VB. She used a marvelous routine she called "Plan-...

When I was in college, we played a game called, "I never..." When it was your turn, you said something that you've never done ...

Recently, the topic was what would engage middle-schoolers.  It's a valid question, spoken to nicely by this quote from Edutopia: Loo...

So this summer my husband came up with seating arrangements that rotated 28 students through 5 different sets of 4 so that in a week's t...

I'm very pleased to say that we're a half-day short of the five week mark and I've only come home once vowing not to go back. Th...

This morning my pastor said, "Oh! Your kids are with their grandparents?  So you're on vacation too!"  Well, only sort of.  My...