There's a really interesting discussion thread going on at the Interactive Whiteboard Revolution ning.  It all began with my post recapping Robert Marzano's position on the influence of IWB technology when he presented at the CUE conference this year.  You can ...

Know a teacher who got a pink slip?  Maybe my newest post at Teacher Magazine can help.  Click here for the article. It's Step 1 of my Top Secret New Teacher Handbook.  Hope it creates some shortcuts, a machete even, through ...

There's been so much talk lately of deep-needed reforms for education, but we neglect just how powerful a simple makeover can be.  I'm lucky to currently work at a school that has a patch of green, which fixes the broken ...

OK, guys.  So I got it from the horse's mouth at CUE.  According to the ISTE Director of Governmental Affairs, No Child Left Behind is not going away.   In the weeks leading up to the election, the Obama administration talked ...

So, CATE (the California Association of Teachers of English) just came to an end.  The hotel was lovely.  All ran smoothly.  We were greeted with smiles aplenty, and everything ran on time.  Sheridan Blau, Kelly Gallagher, Carol Booth Olson, Taylor ...

Somehow, and maybe I'm reading into it here, I feel a little written off already.  Education Week is reporting that some districts are pondering the possibility of "front-loading" new teacher salaries, increasing their compensation earlier in their career to aid ...

I'm being stalked by two of the tiniest, cutest 7th graders I've ever seen.  Big eyes.  High voices.  You know the type.  They are apparently the heavies for Yearbook, sent out into the wilds of 8th period to swing open ...

Every year, I do this activity when teaching Narrative Plot.  I've used it from 3rd grade to 12th grade.  I learned a version of it first in 1993 at a UCLA Extension class on "Teaching Reading to Secondary Students" and ...

So you know when you get your group of kids on the first day, there are those who immediately set off your alarms?  Well, that definitely happened to me on my first day. I have a student who clearly needs help. ...

I've been reading a lot of headlines lately about NCLB leaving out the over-achievers and potential leaders in our schools.  Joanne Jacobs mentions it in her article, "What About the Smart Kids?" and the NYTimes and the Common Core blog ...