Teacher Town

Our family of five is often in a rush, often running behind schedule, and yesterday was no exception. In a typical fashion, we darted about ...

I fell asleep before clicking on "publish post" last night as I deliberated over my title. I wasn't just dozing, where I could...

Newspaper projects were due on this last day before Spring Break, so instead of playing games or watching a movie, as they were in other par...

A crinkly piece of plastic flew by me this afternoon as I walked up my driveway. This streamer-shaped plastic took me by surprise because it...

Within the first few minutes of first mod today, I was expounding on something terrifically important, of course, when I heard a scuffle, so...

Small groups are working together in class this week to publish newspapers. I've traditionally taken a low-tech approach to this project...

The wind roared in my ears this afternoon, and I was only comfortable when I was standing under the direct rays of the sun. This didn't ...

Today felt holy, but not in the conventional sense of the word. I took my baby for a run and we stopped to talk to ducks and barked at dogs ...

One of my students recently posted a slice about the movie, Groundhog Day, in which the main character becomes trapped in one single day tha...

After a couple of sessions focused on selecting our top dogs for the Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament, I've had a change of heart. Firs...

My team's homeroom classes are about to embark on some March Madness in the shape of a RPS tournament. I'm due to send two represent...

Two of my sons and I sat in the office of a homeopathic doctor today. It's allergy season, which is a good time for a constitutional rem...

My students are right about to begin creating their own "news"papers tomorrow, so they pitched ideas for what themes they'd li...

The kick-off for my birthday this morning was a run with my oldest; the baby came along for a free ride in the jogger stroller. It wasn'...

When I told some friends the other night that my oldest is rowing this spring, one remarked that the sport is like a cult. Well, after today...

I've got a problem with people who think that the middle child gets the shaft. I'm the middle child, and I happen to know I'm th...

We're about half-way through this month's writing challenge, and I can already say I'm a believer. For those of my students who ...

Our school focuses on character education in homeroom, and today we were talking about the importance of being trustworthy. I passed out dif...

Today was the start of a journalism unit in my class, and the activity I planned to get their minds in the right place was for groups to pe...

We had a late dinner tonight, on account of one of my son's hockey games, and a much-needed trip to grocery store that I neglected yeste...