A new school year comes with lots of excitement. There are bulletin boards to decorate, rosters to print out, and seating charts to make. While

This guest post is by a 7th grade Science teacher who has taught for 9 years. When asking students to engage with text in the

These classroom and teacher must haves from Amazon have made my teaching life easier over the years! Amazon is a treasure chest for tools I

My last post discussed issues I have had this year with a problem class. After a few weeks of frustration, I made some changes that

When I first started teaching, I had many classes that were difficult. I honestly didn’t realize how well-behaved the students from my first year were

I love and hate test prep. Actually, I think I just hate test prep. No one ever went to college because they wanted to help

I remember how intimidated I was about interacting with parents at the start of my career. That was particularly unfortunate, because the second day of

Making inferences is an important reading comprehension skill, but have you ever second-guessed how to teach your students how to make an inference in middle

My friends always ask me a lot of questions about being a teacher. Well, they don’t ask. But they do offer brief pauses in conversation