Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's ...

  I still love teaching. Helping kids find their way in something they're trying to learn, getting to know the future generations as peo...

  It look like I didn't read much in August. Only five books…and I'm cheating a little to claim the fifth. I still have a couple mor...

  The Practical Pedagogue: Things I Learned Today: Starting the Schoolyear di... :  1. It's easier with the students I already know than...

Summer is here! As I write this, I've been on summer vacation for (checks watch--remembers I don't have one and checks phone) 1....

This month I'm writing one post for each letter of the alphabet, all on the theme of "Letters to Dead Writers." You can see...

We had a school holiday on Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. There are only a few Americans who stand high enough in our country...

May is not my favorite month. This might be a side effect of my day job (teaching middle school), but this month is always a struggle. I...

I'm a teacher by day. So, this time of year is very busy for me. I tend to kind of disappear from all social life in mid-August and no...

This is my first week of summer vacation. As readers of this blog already know, I am a middle school Spanish teacher by day, and a novelist ...

So, I just had my birthday (yesterday).  It was pretty darn awesome. I spent it with my family. There was cake. There were hugs. There ...

Education is a messy business, and I'm not just talking about the paint smears and glue incidents.  No. Education is messy in that i...

I'm a twenty-first century mom. So, I have an array of tools at my fingertips for keeping my family organized, fed, groomed, educated,...

The little one and I went to sign up for summer reading at our library today.  We don't need a special program to read, especially not h...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/rabbit2.jpg?_sm_au_=isVHLDFJTMPWkQZt So, it's testing season. When the teachers and students feel ...

“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.” ― Lao Tzu , Te Tao Ching from: http://coachdawnwrites.com/wp-content/ u...

We sure do love to complain, don't we? We get together and kvetch about our jobs, bellyache about our children, or grump about the sta...

I'm planning to leave teaching at the end of this school year (assuming I can find something else to do for a living). In all honesty,...

My school district jumped headfirst into technology this year, purchasing a laptop for every student in grades 6-12.  It's been exciting...

It's that time of year again.  And that time seems to come earlier each year. It's the time of year when I am so frustrated, overwhe...