and living life one day- and book- at a time
Today will commemorate the 39th President of the United States. I remember, probably because I’m well old enough, Jimmy Carter’s presidency. I also remember when he ran against Ronald Reagan, and how our school decided to celebrate that election year. Like most presidents, I recall the good and the bad that was said about him. …
Quite a few years ago, I attended a conference where the guest speaker was Kim Campbell. Her presentations that day were a gamechanger for me. I had struggled to reach a few a students, but I didn’t quite know what to do. Without reaching them, there was no way I could control the classroom the …
Finding engaging, interactive learning tools for students can be difficult. Here are a few online tools that you can use in the classroom to provide the engagement needed for students.
I may have mentioned this before, but I am currently on hiatus as a middle school teacher. Although that is the case, I have been staying up to date on trends and so forth, but one thing that completely caught me off guard was seeing the devastation of some areas after Hurricane Helene. I had …
A few days ago I made the comment that I had managed to read 3 books in one day. That was a record for me because usually I could read one book in a day, but three had to be a record. A former student of mine, who is about to graduate from college with …
Sorry I haven’t been around to blog, but I recently had a viral sickness that rivaled the flu and Covid in terms of being the worst. Two weeks of it, in fact. I don’t know what kind of odd colds are going around your parts, but I do know that this one I had was …
It was my 2nd year teaching when I met C. He wasn’t supposed to be in my class, but through his parent’s request, he was placed in my class. I had been hired on after the start of the year to lessen the teaching load and lower class numbers. I believe that they had 37+ …
When it comes to creating a learning output in the ELA classroom, we can utilize either project based or problem based learning. While these two inquiry products can coincide with other subjects, finding a way to make them solely ELA can be just as rewarding in the classroom. Nine years ago, the word rigorous was …
I’ve always been a blogger. I found it to be a great creative outlet, and I have even encouraged my students to find a way to either blog or journal because of it. For me, blogging started out as a way to take my journaling to a digital platform. It gave me the ability to …
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, reading has been on a decline since 2019. This isn’t too hard to understand considering the fact that 2019 and 2020 were pivotal years in education with the onset of Covid. Education was highly disrupted, and even though things have gone back to normal in the education …