Mentoring in the Middle
How do you manage your classroom library?  For years, I've had a checkout system where kids wrote their names and the book checked out i...
Always looking for new ways to engage kids in deeper, more analytical thinking, I decided about a month ago to have them read a short, two-p...
I was telling a colleague about a great couple of days I'd been having with my students as we tweaked a way they were responding to open...
I hope 2015 is a good year for you!  I was looking at a friend's facebook post yesterday and she proclaimed 2014 her best year yet.  And...
Did you have a good Thanksgiving?  Are you still enjoying the bliss of a much-needed longer break this Fall?  I know I am!   I've been...
I happened up Kim's post at Finding Joy in Sixth Grade which makes me want to say, "Yeah.  What she said." As little as I&#...
Sometime this summer, an editor approached me about reading some books by Clark Burbidge.  The books sounded interesting, and made me wonder...