This summer I have been reading and commenting on the book What If Everybody Understood Child Development? by Rae Pica. These are the last...

This summer I'm reading and commenting on the book What If Everybody Understood Child Development? by Rae Pica. Chapter 27: Bribes a...

This summer I'm reading and commenting on the book What If Everybody Understood Child Development? by Rae Pica. Chapter 20: Failu...

I read a lot of things. Since I'm finishing my university classes this semester, I read a lot about teaching for school and not much o...

Here are some things that caught my attention this week. I can see all of these becoming a part of my classroom. Salt Painting (Jojoebi ...

I've been reflecting. Two things have intersected at this moment to create this blog post. Currently some blog friends are doing a boo...

My professor in one of my classes was musing about challenges in the classroom these days. After we had discussed a few things, he ackn...

Here are things I've tweeted, linked to, or posted to Evernote this week. (No, not pinned. I don't do Pinterest.) DIY Junk Bingo...

I knew when I chose ENJOY as my word for 2014, I was asking for trouble. And that's happened. Since we've started back to school,...

I wasn't worried about handling a group of kids in my first grade classroom. Turns out, I should have been. It's been a struggle...

In my university class, the professor has said more than once, "95% of the problems you have were created by you." And I know th...

I'm still working to get some things in place with my new first graders. My class has a lot of social animals...and they love to talk. I...

Today driving along on the interstate, I became frustrated with the driver in front of me. He wasn't doing anything wrong, just not doin...

Lately I've been thinking about reputation--specifically what my reputation is among my co-workers...how people view me and what they th...

On Facebook , I often cite some of the things that I hear in my classroom. Here are some of the things I have heard this year...and what we ...

Photo by Dunechaser on Flickr.com "S" finished her collage and began to print her name. "Is it ie or ei ?" she ask...