I started a new blog to document my thinking related to my professional career, as well as to document my Slice of Life stories. I view Snap...

After reading and loving Guadalupe Garcia McCall's Pura Belpré award winner ,  Under the Mesquite , I am excited to be a part of the b...

Different years I have played around with and experimented with reading logs. I even had a year when I tossed them out and went by books rea...

Yesterday I started an update of how our shift to a 6th-8th grade common reading time is going so far. I explained what it was like the fi...

A little bit before the school year started, I posted about some changes in scheduling for this year. Now that we are two weeks and two day...

As maybe all workshop teachers, each year is a new opportunity to consider how to maximize the time that I have for each class period, deter...

This time last year for the first time since I started teaching I was not setting up my classroom. Instead I was helping a colleague set up ...