This book was a source of inspiration last week to practice multiplication skills: One is a Snail Ten is a Crab Before I even opened...

Today was an introduction to probability. On the board, I had typed this sentence, "We are about to start talking about probability....

Just finished a weekend workshop with Ron Ritchhart , working toward " Creating a Culture of Thinking " in the classroom. Turns ...

Our latest grade 3 read aloud is Flora & Ulysses , the 2014 Newberry winner: We finished up No Talking before our holidays , and t...

We've just spent a great week in Boracay. With water so turquoise and sands so white, it's no wonder this is a premier tourist dest...

For our performance task in our Physical Well-being unit, I simply printed the standards and indicators being addressed on half sheets of p...

This week in Math class I introduced a new Visible Thinking routine, the Think Puzzle Explore .  It was perfect and I felt SO energized af...

Today we started a new Visible Thinking routine, Zoom In , that I'm hoping to keep up with in the class. [ Side note, I'm attendi...

My niece, above, started Kindergarten in September and she was so resistant... but she's loving it! The teacher in me is so happy ...

We be havin' 'em. Plenty of 'em, too. Aside from enlisting the help of our guidance counselor, Information Literacy teacher, ...

I was inspired one weekend when my husband set out money for our helper's weekly trip to the grocery store. She has off-the-charts ment...

Such an inspiring video: And aside from critique and feedback , so many other themes: perseverance goal-setting revision personal be...