A Year of Reading

Flickr Creative Commons Photo by Nick Step Bike Ride Blessing I want to stop, gather my thoughts. A deer and her fawn ran across...

One Shadow on the Wall by Leah Henderson Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2017 Outside In Jennifer Bradbury Atheneum/Ca...

Launching Writers' Workshop is one of my favorite things about the beginning of a new school year.  The possibilities are endless and g...

One of my brother's colleagues used a colander to capture this stunning eclipse image. Choose Something Like a Star By Robert Fr...

I received a review copy of Josh Funk 's new book, It's Not Jack and the Beanstalk , in the mail last week. I laughed out loud as...

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash We were taking a restroom break after the whole-school Town Hall meeting on Friday. Most of the clas...

We had a great first few days of 5th grade.  We started #classroombookaday on the first day of school.  Just as I have the last few years,...

As seen/passed around on FaceBook THUG All summer it's been cool but just in time for school the heat comes back, like a big...

From GapingVoid.com Seth Godin reminds us that we are in charge of creating culture: "It's culture that pushes us to le...

The new book Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You Had is a treasure!  It is a huge book and filled with so much great thinking about w...