Discuss your reading life (if you don't have one, come talk to me). Students that see the adults in their lives as readers will be more...

Background A year or so ago I was looking for short stories to use in my class and came upon the wonderful "What Do Fish Have To Do With...

Soft Start Writing- After the Christmas Break I decided to start looking at a different "soft start" because we were doing book clubs and...

Because Star/AR testing is purchased we should use it in a balanced way. I get this thinking, occasionally teachers do not have enough of...

The concept of not knowing what people are going through came full force this week as the struggles some students were facing came into...

Agenda Message: We are Learning to Write Stories I am not sure why at first this popped out at me, it could have been just the fact that...

New Things Back from the Christmas break I wanted to get 2 things going. Book Clubs and morning Quick writes as a soft start to the day....

Most of us live our lives by accident-we live as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose. I asked them to tell me...

2018 starts like the rest This morning I got up like usual and went downstairs to the gym. I start every morning but Sunday this way....