Ten Plays for Black History Month

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

A Good Time to Say Thanks

This week I just want to say THANK YOU to all you FANTASTIC teachers who have used Read Aloud Plays … More

A couple of my fifth grade girls showed up at school today wearing Santa hats. “Santa hats?” I said. “We … More

Women soldiers? It’s not so unusual in 2015, but back in the 18th century, the very idea would have drawn … More

Fairies waving candied wands… Goblins drooling chocolate malt… Halloween has such a bizarre place in our classrooms. In my school … More

How do you grade a play? I read an article recently about the merits of “gradelessness” in the classroom. It … 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 think much of what I know about teaching, about kids, about life itself, I learned from Spanky and Our … More

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