Quick Podcast version Twitter is filled with amazing educators. I often get the start of a great idea from something shared by others....

I have asked myself this question a lot lately. As I sit and listen to my students talk about the struggles they have in school be it...

So today I started the day a little frazzled but had decided already that I wanted to talk to the kids about how stories reflect real...

Today we were watching a TED talk with a young girl that proclaimed that students will work to our expectations as teachers. If we set...

This last week as we started #projectspeak in my 8th grade LA class I have spent a lot of time thinking about student voice and choice,...

I have been reading Lisa Thompson's The Light Jar over the last couple weeks. I love Lisa Thompson's The Goldfish Boy so much I bought a...

So I have been playing around the last 24 hours with a post idea and in my best procrastinating stance I have decided that rather than...

I know my friend Mary Howard does not like the term expert so Virtuoso it is. In this day and age where access is quite literally at the...

I am very often loud. I am a rather high energy individual and teacher. I have fun, I get excited about ideas and I go off track... a...

The last sentence is just beautiful It is no surprise to regular readers that I am a huge fan of the work of Bob Probst and Kylene Beers....

The Books Why book clubs? I started working with a book club approach a few years ago as an experiment in 6th grade. I wanted to move...

In November I signed on to help with our varsity basketball program. I still chuckle about the notion as do many others who know me. This...

Oh it is that time of year where the March Madness crazy starts to over take the world. I tend to love seeing the different brackets on...

I missed my post yesterday. The least busy day of my week and I spent it researching and watching a movie and reading and relaxing and...

March 2, 2019, Post 2 #SOL19 Gym Thinking I start every morning but Sunday in the gym, by morning I mean I am there between 5:00-5:30 6...

Ok, so this is my second kick at the Slice of Life Challenge. The idea is to write every day in the month of March. It doesn't have to be...

This last week we have had off school. A provincial holiday kicked the week off followed by a board appointed holiday and then finally...

I remember last year around the time Love by Matt de la Pena had been released and I was struck by a few of the scenes in the story and...

Every year I look at ways to improve my teaching. How I might be able to better meet the needs of all of my students and prepare them for...

Ok, so I don't mean to take anything away from the teachers who after hearing themselves referred to as losers are trying to own it in...