How Parents Can Make Life Hard for Their Kids
On a recent college tour with the baby of the family, I thought it might be a good time to probe a little to see if the high school junior […]
Category Archives: character education
How to Be a Teacher’s Parent Pet
I’m going to create a new reality show – The Parents. Instead of lovesick single bachelors or bachelorettes getting out of a limo and introducing themselves to the prospective spouse, […]
Welcome to My House
Tonight is Open House -the night where parents come to see how their kids are doing in school after 10 days. If there’s a problem after only 10 days, that’s […]
We Don’t Need No Education – Actually, You Do . . . .
Just like that summer is over, and school starts tomorrow. I have a love/hate relationship with the start of school. There’s something refreshing about a do-over, but with the temps […]
Freedom to Read
Fun fact: the Fourth of July is my favorite holiday. The Peachtree Road Race, Braves baseball, fireworks, southern BBQ, country music, watermelon, and sweet summertime make for the perfect holiday. […]
What Would You Tell a Graduate?
One of my favorite classroom traditions is showing commencement addresses to seniors the last two weeks of school. I’m not sure how or why I started doing this, but the […]
Who are You Cheating?
Research is well underway in one of my 12th-grade classes, so the subject of plagiarism was only a matter of time. Most times I deal with this indirectly because I […]
School Year Resolutions
This was supposed to be my first post of 2016, and I guess it technically is. Between the start of a new semester in school, my mom’s foot surgery, and […]
You Could Have Said “Yes”
Once again the teacher is learning from the student. I never cease to be amazed by students and want to relay a story told by a National Honor Society officer […]
The Ultimate Teacher Appreciation
*This post was previously published last year, but since everyone including me has forgotten what I wrote last year on teacher appreciation, I am running this again. The first full […]
Teach with Class 