New Plays and Product Updates

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

Teaching Grit & Resilience

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

We’ve been seeing it for the last year or so: the education pendulum on the verge of swinging. Standardized testing, … More

That you’re visiting my blog tells me you’re most likely already a fan of reader’s theater, so I needn’t tell … More

Springfield, Oregon, has made national news for something other than being the birthplace of Bart Simpson. The Springfield School District … More

The Daring Escape of Henry “Box” Brown is making a reappearance in the January issue of Scholastic’s Storyworks magazine. In … More

Imagine saying the Pledge of Allegiance to a bright yellow flag featuring a coiled rattlesnake! The history of the flag … More

In my school we’ve taken to referring to our state-of-the-art music room as the “Musicless Room.” Oh, it still says … More

I can gripe with the best of ‘em, and every year the teaching profession seems to provide plenty of new … More

A guess you can qualify me as a “Vitamin D Addict.” This time of year, the sun is typically obscured … More