Summer Furlough

Seven years ago I assigned my fifth grade class a task called Letter to Myself at Graduation. “I want your … More

Talk Like a Russian Day

“Talk Like a Russian Day” was a big hit in my classroom. Though it coincided with certain political events, there … More

The Major League Baseball season’s Spring Training is underway, which seems a trivial point in the broad scheme of academics. … More

While digging around for something to write about this week I stumbled upon a transcript from a pretty cool podcast … More

My plays often make return appearances in Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine, such as The Daring Escape of Henry “Box” Brown this … More

The Common Core requires that we teach students to “evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event … More

TeachersPayTeachers has grown immensely over the last decade. Back when I first started using it as a secondary market for … More

I concede I don’t know much about the organization Teach.org, but I absolutely love this video they’ve released. It challenges … More

It’s not my aim to be political, but no matter one’s affiliation, it’s hard to deny that racial tension has … More

Some of my colleagues were complaining recently that kids today don’t have much in the way of grit, meaning that … More