Make it in the Middle

               Teaching Shakespeare is tricky.  It's trickier when you have a classroom full of 14 year olds who have (in most ca...

Social media has somewhat become the fabric of our modern world. It is the media through which we learn breaking news, find updates on long...

Adolescents, by design, are individuals who struggle with finding out who they are and where they belong. As middle school teachers, one of...

As teachers working to provide the next generation with the tools they need to succeed, we have been challenged greatly this year. In Decem...

On Monday morning at approximately 7:30 am, I'll be leaving our middle school on a journey to Charlton, Ma with about 67 seventh graders...

So I've decided it's about time I started blogging.  I spend lots of time perusing education blogs and websites, scrolling through T...