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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 ...

We all know there are many problems in education and not one bullet to solve any one of them.  We as teachers can't do a lot about many of the factors that have huge influence on student success: parental involvement, ...

Thanks to Scott McLeod for Twittering the following article from The Washington Post.  It describes a terrible ordeal that an administrator went through battling charges of "failure to report suspected child abuse" and potential child pornography after students were caught sexting on ...

OK, don't tell my husband, but I have a fictional crush.  That is, I have a crush based on a fictitious character.  I think I've always had one, but the object of my literary love has always changed with my ...

So US News is reporting that President Obama and the educator leaning out of the sidecar, Arne Duncan, have created  "a $5 billion 'Race to the Top' fund for states that have made progress on the following fronts: 1) improving ...

Yes, there are many problems in education.  But many of them boil down to the fact that we are a cadre of professionals who are taken advantage of as part of the job requirement.

I can't wait to show my 8th Grade Honors class this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6b9bMBXpg. It's a great display of the act of spreading the arts publicly and on a huge scale.   My students have been working all year on their "Spontaneous Shakespeare" ...

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 ...

So I'm sitting here pondering the titles of the two curriculum books I am currently writing on teaching Internet Literacy, and I can't help but wonder if reading on the Internet isn't its own genre all together.   I mean, I ...