I'm not a Bad Dad. I Just Love Toy Guns, written 1 hour ago, They used to be a essential part of boys' play. But fears about gun crime have put an end to toy replicas. Should James Bond fan Phil Hilton abandon his quest for a life-like 007 shooter? When I'm in toy shops with my family, I quietly run...

Here you'll find new posts every Monday and Thursday. Topics include the Montessori method, education, and child development.

Week of Sept 1st, written 1 day ago, Hmmm, its Thursday already... sorry, it's crazy here.This week we are taking our SAFETY TEST. They will be going home to be signed next week.We made flashcards for our Scientific Method vocabulary words- Study them! Know how it works! Quiz coming up! I will show ...

Links for 2008-09-05 [del.icio.us], written 11 hours ago, Market research & statistics: Internet marketing, advertising & demographics - eMarketer Coke's New Design Direction Computer Arts - Home Smashing Magazine Noupe 24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for ...

Is Full Day Kindergarten Bad?, written 1 week ago, This is an intriguing article because of its black/white dichotomy. The superiority of full-day or half day kindergarten has not been fully established especially in light of the many different kinds of Kindergartens existing in the US today (Graue,...

MBS Fund-Raising Dinner at The Gurney Hotel Resort on Sunday, 9th November, written 3 days ago,

This is a blog for "my parents" and anyone else who might benefit from my musings about teaching. I teach in an inner city middle school. My classroom is a self-contained class for students with moderate cognitive abilities. I'm highly creative, or so I'm

Case study of my K-12 work with colleagues on learning and leadership.

Thoughts, facts - big and small - gathered from literature, periodicals and the web that confirm to my feeling that an education reform is under way that was not meant by the authors of the infamous NCLB and other official reforms, old or new.

Core Knowledge Friday News Quiz, written 19 hours ago, The cornerstone of the Core Knowledge curriculum is the idea that to be fully literate depends on shared knowledge–understanding a broad range of ideas and information taken for granted by speakers and writers.  Here are a few examples I st...

Does the job ever end?, written 1 week ago, It's 1 AM and I just finished going to our school to deal with some kids from town who were bothering the team that is staying at our school overnight. They traveled a long way in order to play a preseason football game with us. What should have been a non...

All apologies, written 1 week ago, I've noticed that the number of visitors has been increasing the last couple of weeks, as teachers are preparing for the new school year. I apologize that this happened to coincide with a complete drop off in my posting. I don't like to make excuses, but I have two...

This blog focuses in on educational leadership and administration, as well as features instructional best practices and reflection.

Independent Reading, written 2 days ago, In these early days of the new school year, each child is selecting books from the leveled library to include in an individual book bag. Teachers use different way to house the individual books for each child such as magazine racks on a shelf or red Target ba...

A blog dedicated to Christian education, the Christian world view and Upper Room Christian School.

Meet our Animals, written 1 month ago, We spend a lot of time taking care of the animals who live here on the farm. From the puppies ...

Sexy Clothes in the Classroom: NPR Makes Some Good Points, written 1 day ago, What battles do you fight? I've taught in the college classroom and the kindergarten classroom - high school, middle school, and the intermediate grades. You ask yourself that question a lot. To what extent do I compromise...

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Quotes from a second-grade classroom.

10 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About their Preschoolers, written 1 week ago, Photo courtesy Lee Cullivan 10. Every child throws tantrums. This is a normal part of life. There is no terrible 2's or 3's, all children go through phases and it's normal. I know parents who will tell you that their ...