Cues From a Coach

We celebrated the end of the kindergarten We Are Readers with a parade. Students held their favorite books as other grade levels cheered. Yo...

On a normal district PD day, many teachers find themselves wondering, "Why am I here?" They find some or, sadly, none of the distr...

TEACH So, yesterday, I modeled a lesson in a third grade classroom on elapsed time. We are preparing for state tests, so the lesson was in ...

Second grade just finished the first bend of the Writing Poetry unit and held a mini celebration. They shared their work and inspired each o...

What a celebration! Tonight was the third and final session of a class I planned and facilitated on Jennifer Serravallo's "The Writ...

Today, we kicked off testing season with what we affectionately call "Spring Training." We rally the students to do the work of t...

Lions, tigers, and bears - what's the same? What's different? Why? It's been fascinating to observe the level of engagement and ...