I've always been fairly tolerant of cell phones in my classroom, as long as they aren't a distraction to other students. Since my...

For some of my students, twenty percent of their grade is determined by group work. They have "learning teams," which are governed...

 Ender's Game the movie is coming out this November. This is a book I teach in my Humanities class because it draws in the male reader...

I like to use engaging, small group activities toward the end of the year as opposed to individual work. Let's face it - the student...

We've all experienced the almost-the-end-of-the-year restless class syndrome. One strategy I've used successfully to get students to...

Today was the end of a quarter and the last assignment for my students was an oral presentation on the topic of their research papers. I ...

I wrote a book on being an organized mom, because I have that down, but I'm constantly trying to figure out how to stay organized as a...