Teacher Appreciation Week has once again come and gone. Lauding and applauding for five days,...

Teacher appreciation is something I think about a lot. When I was in the classroom full time, I...

Since my very first day of teaching, I’ve always preferred to focus on the hope of what students...

“To turn off your iPad, you press the button on the side. Let’s practice turning it off and on,...

“What if you chose to teach, because you could be anything.”

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

We’re kicking off our week of Tchers’ favorite things by...

Making Teaching More Manageable

We all have days (or weeks, or months) when we feel like we...

As adults, we often rely on people with practical knowledge to model procedures for certain...

Inevitably, when educators get to April or May, the question of “How many days are left?” is...

Success demands singleness of purpose.

We can all agree that most young people are frequent and savvy users of digital media and online...

I was recently asked, “What is a current trend in education that has shaped your teaching?” My...

Classroom management provides for us perhaps the greatest of juxtapositions between frustration...

I’d be very surprised to find a teacher that has fallen asleep at night thinking, “In what ways...

 “What gets measured is what gets done.”

A couple of years ago, the FIRST LEGO League robotics theme was “Trash Trek.” That was the year...

I wrote the book Attack of the Teenage Brain! Understanding and Supporting the Weird and...