Last year in March I thought about a project where my students could study what they were interested interested in. We called it...

I was at work incredibly early this morning and sitting at my computer in the silence. On my desk there was a little pile of books, to my...

"One upon a time, there was a boy who was invincible," he whispered, breathing in deeply and filling his lungs with knight superpowers....

A few years ago I attended a conference where I was introduced to a speaker named Dr.Jody Carrington. The sessions discussed emotional...

This time of year the Gilsons, when not teaching, are at basketball. If not working in the concession, I am sitting on the bench or in...

Yesterday I was talking with a teacher in a very small school who has had 3 or 4 students this year attempt suicide or report suicidal...

Tomorrow we head back to school. The break has been pretty relaxing. I did less work than I should have, I watched a lot of movies and...

Lately I have been a part of a lot of conversations around equity and antiracist pedagogy and how so much of the work is being left to...

Ok so yesterday I wrote about the questions I have been struggling with and I don't want anyone to think that I have solved them because...

The last few years I have taken part and had my students take part in the whole #oneword project. Pick a word to frame your year around...

Background Last year I wrote and airing of grievances post in the tradition of Festivus and the hilarious holiday of Seinfeld. It was a...

The Winter Break is upon us. I am sitting here watching the Mandalorian and pondering life. Earlier this week a friend and I were talking...

So I have had a bit of a writers block when it comes to my own blog. I think there is a lot of angst in the literacy world at the moment...

This week it seems the opportunity to discuss language be it written, read or spoken, and the power that comes with it has popped up many...

This week I read an amazing post by Doug Robertson also known as @TheWeirdTeacher on Twitter and it can be found here. It is a great post...

Basketball season is kicking off pretty quickly. The final days of football and volleyball season are fast approaching. Tryouts for...

Today I started the day by playing with a room of delightful 18-month to 3 year olds at church, had a delightful meal with family and...

Sitting at PD with Donalyn Miller taking a little time to reflect on Monday and some moments. I spent the weekend reading through some of...

Last Friday night it started to snow. It started to snow a lot. By Saturday afternoon we had a couple inches of snow on the ground. By...

It is funny, a while back I saw a post that discussed how kids don't care about Gold Star stickers. In the moment I had read it and...