Today is the beginning of my 22nd year of teaching.  It's hard to believe I've been doing it this long! Wow!  And, I still get super...

Wow, did I get crafty the last couple of days... Yesterday I made this board. It's the same kind of things as yesterday's Dry Er...

I am not crafty... not much that I plan to do actually works and turns out cute. But, I think today at school I had a minor turning point. I...

Grade level teams have changed a lot since I began teaching twenty-two year ago.  Way back in the early 90s, being a team meant very little....

Day 3 of organizing the classroom did not go well. I have one completely empty wall space in my classroom. It is the wall behind my computer...

The first day I always feel that it's the most productive- it's probably not, but it seems that way to me because I go from utter ch...

I was able to get into my classroom yesterday to begin the process of getting it ready for the first day of school on July 27th. I moved cla...