Right now, I want you to sit back and imagine a scenario that you may be familiar with in your classroom. The bell has just

I’m sure you can all relate to a feeling that Alexa so openly shared with me today. Sometimes, as teachers, we find ourselves in a

There is no doubt about it–Valentine’s Day is one of the craziest days in a middle school classroom. Hormones and red carnations fly, and I

Today’s episode is for every teacher who, midday, looks at their desk, to-do list, turn-in bins, whiteboard, and bulletin boards and thinks: how am I

Can you name a single teacher who doesn’t wish they could spend less time planning? Yeah… I didn’t think so. Honestly, who wants to be

Are you like me? Do you have a teacher from your past who, to this day, remains vivid in your mind? Whose classroom you can

Do me a favor and, right now,  I want you to sit back and imagine yourself in your last school professional development session or faculty

Do you ever find yourself wishing that your ELA lessons could be just a bit more fun and engaging to your students?  Do you then

Over the course of my career as an ELA teacher and instructional coach, I have heard, time and time again, this great debate among writing

I’m a bad writer, so I can’t teach writing.  There’s not enough time in my curriculum to truly teach how to write.  My students just