A Well-Paced Play

My class of fifth graders staged a nifty trio of plays recently. Eric paced about the stage as the insanely … More

How to Swipe a Free Play Part 2

A few weeks ago I blogged tongue-in-cheek about swiping reader’s theater scripts through nefarious means, so I thought I’d follow … More

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

I’m sure you remember those big FBI warnings at the beginning of our old VHS movies. Aren’t you glad the … More

Before you crack those text books or assign that homework reading, how about blasting away all that summer slog with … More

One of the greatest things my mother ever did for me was regularly take me to the public library when … More

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

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