Getting Out Early
Have you ever truly enjoyed something that you were doing? It could have been watching TV… or a…
Thoughts from #TCT16
This weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the Tomorrow’s Classrooms Today conference hosted by the guys at Evolving…
Ideas for Reflecting on This Year & Improving Next Year
How can you reflect, reinvent, and improve for next year? Try these 6 strategies found here. Click here for the #4OCF…
The Gratitude Challenge
I had the fortuitous opportunity to stumble across a book last year called The Zen Teacher. The book is written…
Behavior Instruction
You would never make a student who struggles with reading clip down or lose a ticket if they didn’t…
In Case of a Fog Delay
Friday night, I took my children to a baseball game. It was a beautiful night for a game. Warm.…
PD Checklists
If professional development is focused more on the how than the why than it’s very likely that checking off…
A Chorus of Can’t and Won’t
What are our students capable of? I would argue that we will never know unless we try. I…
Point at the Process
When a student is not doing his work teachers, generally speaking, say one of two things. They will…
Questions We Should Be Asking Students
For many years, we have asked students small questions. Detail questions. Fact questions. Who? What? Where? When? We…