Your Choice: Light or Dark

Today I give you a choice of blog posts.  If you want something light-hearted and humorous, check out the guest post on first drafts I wrot...

What I'll Be Doing ...

… For the Next Three Weeks is this: Count test booklets and answer booklets every morning Distribute pencils, rulers, scrap paper Read tedio...

Upcoming Anniversary for TPR

I’d like to thank Marisa , Carolin , and Not the Girl You Think I Am for participating in First Impressions this month! I also appreciate a...

PRIZES!

The first annual PAYA Book Festival on Saturday was so many kinds of awesome, I could hardly contain myself! First of all, I was thrilled to...

Don't Wanna Go Back!

WAH! A week from tomorrow, the 2010-2011 school year starts for me. The kids have another week off, but teachers return next Tuesday. Here...

Ivory Tower Thinking

Are you sick of hearing me complain about standardized tests? My students are certainly sick of taking them. One of them even came to scho...

Students Express Themselves

Pennsylvania students are currently in the throes of their yearly state testing. The testing window is shorter than ever, with only 8 days ...

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

The miserable weather has broken here in Pennsylvania, and April made a grand entrance with some truly gorgeous days! I also received the f...

Education Guru: "Doh!"

Yes, Homer Simpson is an exemplary model of doing something really stupid and realizing his mistake only when it’s too late to fix it. I ho...

Define Reading ... Part 2

Reading in today’s society tends to be a social activity. People share books, recommend them, discuss them, blog about them, and list them ...