There’s Still Time for Some Halloween Monstrosities!

It’s not too late to stage a Halloween drama fest. Here are half-a-dozen plays that will allow your students to … More

10 Compelling Paired Texts for Black History Month

Here are ten great paired texts with which to recognize black history month while meeting numerous Language Arts standards. All … More

Fairies waving candied wands… Goblins drooling chocolate malt… Halloween has such a bizarre place in our classrooms. In my school … More

The Common Core requires that we teach students to “evaluate authors’ differing points of view on the same historical event … More

TeachersPayTeachers has grown immensely over the last decade. Back when I first started using it as a secondary market for … More

We’ve been seeing it for the last year or so: the education pendulum on the verge of swinging. Standardized testing, … More

Springfield, Oregon, has made national news for something other than being the birthplace of Bart Simpson. The Springfield School District … More

Fairies waving candied wands… Goblins drooling chocolate malt… Halloween has such a bizarre place in our classrooms. In my school … More

Imagine saying the Pledge of Allegiance to a bright yellow flag featuring a coiled rattlesnake! The history of the flag … More

In my school we’ve taken to referring to our state-of-the-art music room as the “Musicless Room.” Oh, it still says … More