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I saw something pretty incredible on Saturday night. It was stunning, beautiful, and fun, and crazy. And it was inspiring. It was Taylor Swift in

By mid to late July every year, I can’t wait to go back to school and begin my classroom setup. I miss grading papers. I

There is a moment every teacher knows well: You’ve planned a lesson you feel good about. You deliver it clearly, yet you still see wildly

You can know a lot about someone by what they choose to read in their free time. A reader who gravitates toward horror stories may

When I was teaching full-time, I had plenty of opinions about standardized testing. After stepping out of the classroom, I had to face something a

As this Saturday approaches one of the most epic math days approaches. Of course, I am speaking about Pi Day on March 14. This year

Formative assessment is one of the most valuable tools we have as teachers because it gives us real-time insight into how our students are doing.

I never imagined I would be leaving teaching mid-year. For years, I thought I would spend my entire career in the classroom. Teaching wasn’t simply

There was always a point during the school year when I could feel the gap between my students growing wider. Some of my students finished

If we had to rank our teacher tasks from top favorite to our least, many of us would probably be placing seating charts towards the