Two New Plays (and Free Comprehension Stuff, Too!)

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

Tongue In, Mouth Closed

McKenna, one of my most “with-it” fourth graders, came up with a new concept I think is worth sharing here. … More

With Black History Month upon us, two bits of news caught my eye last week: the State of South Carolina … More

I recently read an article about how “slow reading” is gaining acceptance as an academic approach. Though the piece was … More

I think much of what I know about teaching, about kids, about life itself, I learned from Spanky and Our … More

The good people of America have some misconceptions about teaching. Planning for a lesson, they believe, is as easy as … More

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic short story, The Birth-mark, the main character becomes obsessed with his beautiful wife’s one and only … More