The first day of school is important. Like, really important. I mean no pressure but the first day sets the tone for the rest of the...

Okay, what's a math talk? Sounds boring. It's not! Weirdly enough, students LOVE math talks! So what are they? Allow me to explain... A...

Teaching is HARD! Parenting is HARD! Doing them at the same time is seemingly impossible. I'm here to tell you that you can do it! Just...

Advice to help introverted teachers avoid feeling like they need to curl up in a hole and hide at the end of each school day. I consider...

When I first started teaching, my behavior management was truly horrific. It actually physically pains me now to think about how chaotic...

Teaching math word problems is, well, a problem. Why? The issue here is that you aren’t teaching students to do a certain thing, you’re...

Teachers don't make a ton of money, that's no secret, so shelling out big bucks for science materials isn't really an option. I mean...

I've spent countless hours this summer watching my son, Adrian, play with sidewalk chalk. He's obsessed! If there's one thing I've...

This past August my district was blessed with almost two straight weeks of teacher work days before the first day of school. My calling...

It’s no secret that math is the most feared subject of most students. It can be confusing and incredibly boring. At least, I always...

If you could walk into a classroom from 50 years ago, I imagine it would look something like this: Wooden desks are aligned in tidy rows....

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I cannot ignore my deeply seeded concern for this latest of social phenomenons. When the teacher’s lounge conversation turned to the...

You don’t even have to be part of the education world to know what people think about common core math. It’s like suddenly everyone is an...

Here's the thing about teaching, it's not so much a job as it is a craft that you have to hone and perfect over many years. For most...