Teacher Town

The Homemade Pizza Company: A new take-out place in Teacher Town prepares pizzas with fresh ingredients, to order or from the refrigerated c...

We're not fond of cauliflower in our household. I would eat just about anything, but in no way do I seek out its bland and unusual textu...

Before dinner, my family of four gathered in front of the house with hockey sticks in hand, goals planted on either side of the street, and ...

My kiddos have taken to the ice--we're on day two of a three-day clinic at our local iceplex. With four and a half years between them, t...

I met a friend from high school tonight for dinner and a movie. Our schedules are so different these days, it often takes a vacation to get ...

I'll admit that my emotions have been very close to the surface lately. I'm usually not one for tearing up, but pregnancy has brough...

Growing up in the Washington area, I used to wish that I lived in a small town. I thought that the people were cold, and the nice ones alway...

This was the last day for students to finish up their own short stories. On this day before Spring Break, when most kids were probably visua...

We saw perfect little hands and feet today--and the sweet profile of our newest member of the family. For the last few hours since, I've...

My second grade son came home from school yesterday near tears. It turns out as they wrapped up science class for the day, his teacher calle...

Many circles of my life overlap, from home to work, spouse, kids, neighbors, colleagues, students. First of all, I can see my school from my...

This could be just a symptom of our busy lives, but it was a thrill today when I walked in the rain to meet my son at the bus stop and from ...

My two boys are in the thick of some good old-fashioned sibling rivalry, and given the fact that this tension is emerging now, at age 12 and...

I woke up to the sound of children playing on the sidewalk outside our open window. In addition to the warm yellow sun streaming in, I could...

My student-teacher has been out sick almost all week, so maybe I'm paying for all that gloating I did in an earlier slice. Still, I foun...

This eighteenth day of the SOLC happens be my birthday, too. Spring is showing its best side, so we're headed out for an after-school wa...

In lieu of faculty meetings this year, our staff has divided into smaller groups, a.k.a. Professional Learning Communities. The aim is to st...

I usually operate under the understanding that my husband's profession and mine are on very different planes, but after an interesting d...

I love words, but I'm especially pleased when my students show them some love, too. They posted their drabbles, as in one hundred well-c...

I imagine that some people out there plan ahead to make up for the entire hour we lost this weekend. Those individuals must be responsible a...