Make it in the Middle

In this last precious week of summer, I have had the opportunity to participate in a writing institute that has taught me, among MANY other ...

On my kitchen counter, I have a day to day calendar entitled "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff."  I tear off each day just before I...

My last few blog posts have been geared towards making it as a middle school teacher through using creative teaching tactics and making conn...

With the weather warming up and the motivation amongst students winding down, the end of the school year comes with lots of challenges.  Rig...

               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...