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: raising successful students
The Secret to Being a Better Reader
So this year in Room 128 I have decided to try something radical and unconventional in today’s classroom (at least in secondary classrooms): I’m going to let my students read […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Finishing Strong
If you find yourself staring out the window during class, daydreaming about beach or lake days, not completing homework, or feeling overall academically sluggish, you could very well be suffering from […]
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