Call me “whiny”, but it’s totally unfair that elementary teachers get gifts every year. I mean, c’mon, secondary teachers have more students, do more grading, and build more meaningful bonds with students (when they...
Rather than teach the standards like products, I take the assignment’s purpose and teach the skills to accomplish the same thing with a creative product.
Kids don’t read. A sad fact that is only perpetuated by media and technology. Are media and technology ALWAYS to blame to you? Yes. Literature and stories are not dying, but the need to...
As writers, we have a tendency to change up how we refer to time as we progress through our work. It’s a pain to go back and change all that; but, you gotta do what you gotta do to ensure your writing is understood how you intend it to be. Tense can have a major effect on just that.
As I started to work on my character development, I had to keep in mind that dialogue is a key feature to understanding a character. How they speak can reveal much of their demographics–let alone the content of their conversation. If you didn’t know that, you know it now.
The type of student that we want to send to college is nothing new. When Common Core compiled their college and career ready list, all teachers–young and new–recognized those descriptions of what we have...
I get it–it’s easier. But, that doesn’t mean it should be done. It kills me when my high school freshmen mix up motifs and themes. Thinking they’re interchangeable, it makes it almost impossible to...
Reviewing all of the video creators below, I found that these would be the most engaging, helpful, and appropriate for 9-12th graders.
The difference between finding a place to live and finding a home is the community around it. It’s so important to find others with the same lifestyle as you. Yet, as they get older,...
This post includes affiliate links that will lead you to other websites that I do not own. Read the full disclosure here. What started as a way to measure student mastery became a way to...
Okay, there are 5 things that stood out to anyone who came into my classroom. I will address these below: Accent Wall Home staples Alternative Seating Lighting and Aromatics Something Living This post includes...
Lifelong Learning, though natural, is also purposeful. School isn’t the only way to do this, though! Here are some tools to keep learning–for free!
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The poetry market is a smaller one that can be harder to break into. However, there is still a way to get your poems out there. You can publish your work in as simple as 6 steps if you really want to, and this book is how.
