It was a new school year and I was beginning to realize that I had some students who were struggling to write sentences, some students who were struggling to write paragraphs, and some students who had never heard the word "essay" before. And they were all in the same room at the same …
After 2020, I had classes that really seemed to struggle with knowing how to work well with others. Slowly I realized - it needed to be explicitly taught! As I began my research, I found something pretty amazing - Teams! This is based on the work of Jon Davis from The Courageous Classroom. The…
This coming school year, I expect a strong focus on reading skills because so many students seem to need reading interventions. It's so hard to know what to focus on in any given class with so many standards with which to work. So I began thinking how I wished I could know which standards my …
At the conclusion of this school year, I will have taught middle school students for 29 years. And I am here to say that it is not only appropriate but necessary to have end-of-the-year activities for middle school students. End of Year Activities for Middle School are Appropriate Why are they…