No matter what our roles are in schools, we all are language teachers because we all teach content through language. By using language as...

Today as I introduced my youngest two girls, second grade and kindergarten, to the words and world of coding. We focused on algorithms,...

Power ... (check) Connect ... (check) Record ... (check) Advocating for student voice has never been so easy. As classrooms transformed...

Guess what? Abraham Maslow didn’t create a pyramid to symbolize the hierarchy of needs because he didn’t believe the needs were linear...

I have struggled with my weight for most of my life. I typically do not enjoy working out. I would consider myself an optimistic person...

Okay, I know it's March! But based on lots of experience with students and working with colleagues, it's never too early to focus on...

I like warm hugs. There, I said it. I've never considered myself much of a hugger, but since the pandemic, I have developed a new...

“I don’t see color,” was a statement during my period 3 class that I said as we discussed the events that occurred on January 6, 2021....

January 18, 2021 After getting home today I was able to do three video lessons, then the weather was good enough, so I went out to do a...

As somebody who has been in the wellness/teaching/coaching field for over 30 years, I've witnessed the positive impact that all types of...

Collaboration can happen in the classroom. Imagine this: You are a special education teacher and you have to work with a teacher, who...

This school year has been filled with a record number of changes and inconsistencies across the board, not to mention political and...

The way we talk to students matters. The way we talk about students also matters. If there was a fly on the wall of your classroom walls...

By Pamela Hall Super Glue is one of my superpowers. I fix everything with Super Glue. (Well, almost everything.) When my boys were...

Hey friends, when I was an education major (back in the early 2000s) I learned so much about what it meant to be a teacher. I learned...

Rebecca Gibboney, Author of The Tiebreaker The other day I had one of those moments. Those moments where you just want to crawl in a hole...

With the discussions and conspiracy theories about the recent election, being an educator is harder than ever. As an educator, I need to...

My first son was pretty close to being the most compliant child ever. When he went to school he completed his homework and always had...

By Heather Lyon Before I ever was a mom, I was a teacher. At that time, I was an English teacher and so teaching poetry was par for the...

By Andrew Marotta A few weeks ago, I had my first experience of taking up old wooden boards on the deck of our house and replacing them...