I have had two times in my life I felt like a first year teacher. The first time was my first year out of college and I was teaching middle school. The second time was after 11 years of teaching middle school, I went to first grade. That was such a large jump in grades that I felt like a new ... View Post
New Year’s Goals for 2017
It's so tempting to make new goals at the beginning of every year. It just feels like the right time for a renewal, a new beginning. I'm not really the type to make new year's resolutions because I've read that in many cases they are empty dreams. How can we get those dreams to become a reality? ... View Post
The Best Way to Do Center Rotations in the Classroom
Center rotations have been one of my organizational projects. I'd tried so many different things to make it run smoothly, then finally found that one thing that worked for us and we've loved it for the past 5 years or so! Our rotation time for reading is a full hour. Half that time, some ... View Post
