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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 ...

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 ...

I believe a classroom library is the heartbeat of a teacher's environment.  It is the window into their own personality, and it reflects the importance of literacy in the classroom.  I believe every teacher, no matter the subject taught, should ...

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 ...

We just got word that we will not have our scheduled textbook adoption for ELA this year as planned.  I have to admit, it is disappointing.  I mean, yes it meant I was going to be out of the classroom ...

So we're at my department meeting yesterday, and my head announces that due to budget cuts, we won't be administering the CAT6 this year.  There was this pause in the room that suggested suppressed sarcasm.

I have two sessions that I will be presenting at CUE in March this year.  I thought I'd share a little of what I sent to them to give you a little preview of what I'm going to be talking ...

OK, I admit it.  I'm a Dances with the Stars Fan.  Although I do believe that the series has jumped the shark with the group hip-hop number two weeks ago (did we really need to see Cloris Leachman in short-shorts?), ...

You know when you enjoy a book so much you begin to slow down towards the end just to make the sweetness last?  Well, Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book is one of those.  NG writes with a rhythm in his ...

I'm referring, of course, to my new Interactive Whiteboard. I think I'm going to name my second child Promethean.