We all know that obesity in children is on the rise. So, we know the students need more movement - but in Middle School? Where the students are already all over the place? Are you kidding me? That's what I thought when I first heard this was the subject of our professional develo…
It's that time of year again! Time to review for the Big State Test in Reading. I polled my students to see what they thought were the best kinds of review. It probably comes as no surprise to you that my middle school students said "competition"! So I put on my thi…
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Danielle from Study All Knight Resources about one the best digital tools for nonfiction - NewsELA! The main thing I love about it is that you can select your grade and the standards you want your students to work with and NewsELA will show you art…
This year I am teaching 7th grade English Language Arts and I have two full classes of all ELL students. As a result, I had the very difficult task of teaching 48 students who speak Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic and French as their first language how to write a text-…