Teaching the Kids in the Hall

Change is hard- but it can be especially hard for teachers. In the past twenty years, we have learned so much about what Marzano calls ...

In light of what we now understand about literacy development, teachers around the world have been committing themselves to shifting from te...

I had the opportunity to spend the past two days at a coaching institute with Dr. Jim Knight, a Canadian working at the University of Kansa...

Recognizing that these comments may border on sacrilege, it seems that the reading comprehension strategy 'making connections' may n...

Resilience has always seemed to be this magical, elusive quality to me... you either have it or you don't. My brother and I have discuss...

During the three months that I decided to teach literacy all of the 7th and 8th grade boys at my school, leaving the girls in the capable h...

Kurt was a grade eight student in my class, slightly taller than the other boys mainly due to the fact that he had been retained a grade ea...

Thanks for visiting my blog space, a place to exchange ideas about the challenges and triumphs of teaching adolescent students. If you are ...