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...

As I trek into more and more group work, I have struggled with a signal to pull the class back together.  (This was the only direct criticis...

One of the things that was most striking to me about last year - compared to my previous experience many years ago - was how completely undi...

So here's what happened my first year teaching ... We had 50 seventh graders. The  25 of them were put in the "advanced" math ...

I joined Twitter in an attempt to expand my professional network, and it was absolutely the right thing to do - there has never been a bett...

There are a myriad of reasons, that I will write about later (one post here ), that I have chosen to emphasize group work and collaborative ...