I was recently asked about this post from 2007 about our editing phones, and thought it was time to repost it now: Teaching my students to be CAREFUL proofreaders is always a struggle. Most of my students are second language learners so they already...

So we are already a quarter of the way through the school year and we are still waiting for laptops to arrive and IT to get them online. Not a great start if you are supposed to be a 1:1 classroom on the one hand, but we are ecstatic that it is even...

Was originally made aware of this by teacher Lee Kolbert over Twitter. She was monitoring the meeting and sending out numerous updates. From the Palm Beach Post: As many as 1,000 parents, teachers unleash frustration at Palm Beach County School Board...

This is one of those posts that started out as a comment on someone else’s blog. Namely Wes Fryer’s post: “No, just having IWB’s does not make learning engaging” (IWB = Interactive Whiteboard) ActivBoard, Smartboard, Mimio, TeamBoard, Starboard,...

Teacher(s) In The Trenches What is missing from too many education conferences are examples of teachers who effectively accomplish exactly what the conference is promoting. Teachers and administrators just might connect with a teacher or teachers...