The End of Standardized Tests?

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

Act Aloud Plays

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

The Major League Baseball season is underway, which seems a trivial point in the broad scheme of academics. Yet were … More

Perhaps many of you have figured this stuff out long ago. Me, after nearly 25 years of teaching, I recently … More

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

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