Fridays are our reading days. It's my favorite day of the week. This past Friday, as the temperatures dipped and snow swirled, we dec...

I don't yell. Okay, if you ask my own children, they might tell you something different, but when it comes to my classroom, you'll...

OMG! How did I end up on the Daily Beast ?! Okay, not really. My hair is longer. But those glasses are spot on. Seriously though, when...

view from my window this morning Ordinarily, if there's even a whiff of snow in the forecast, my boys and I have spoons nestled unde...

This is not the first time that I have taught students how to blog. For many years, I had my tenth-grade students create blogs for their...

It's quiet.  Occasionally I hear the plastic crinkle of a plastic-encased library book as a student flips the page.  Brad is engrossed i...

The only sound in my room at the moment is the crisp clicky-clack of 224 fingertips typing.  And then Cheyenne can't contain herself a...