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Every year my nemesis rears its ugly head: the epic paragraph.  Epic paragraphs are those essays comprised entirely of one mega-paragraph with no indentations to indicate transition from thought thought. I bet you thought your kids were the only ones doing ...

I was reading through my Digg headlines this weekend, and I happened on this article of the top 10 most extraordinary Twitter updates.  I also did some digging (no pun intended) and found articles that range in claiming that there ...

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 ...

So I looked at my 8th grade students' scores after they took the MMA and sighed.  Their scores sucked.  

Man walked on the moon.  JFK assassination.  Shuttle explosion.  9/11.  Obama elected president.  Where were you when history was made last night? Clearly, not all of these rank quite as high as the memories from last night, but there are those ...

The Carnival of Education #180 is hosted this week by SteveSpangler.com.  Check out my entry if you haven't already, and enjoy the parade!

I commented on Joanne Jacobs article, "Stop Facilitating and Start Teaching," based on Fred Strine's article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  Strine indicates that more student-centered teaching is somehow less taught and, consequently, less learned.  Jacobs paraphrases that the "'sage on the ...

You know, sometimes I wonder if I'm not a huge pain in the ass to present for, especially if I love what's going on.  I'm one of those audience members who has to verbally digest and implement what I am ...

So I saved an educator's life today while talking to her after lunch.  We were walking back from Panera to the afternoon session of the UCI Writer's Project and we were engrossed in a discussion about using metacognitive strategies in ...