Teach Children Well

Reflection #3 As I embark on reflection #3, I am reminded about the way I completed my teacher evaluation self reflection last fall. I q...

Reflection #2 During the next month, I will assess one or two of Massachusetts' new teacher evaluation indicators  daily. Please joi...

Massachusetts has launched a new teacher evaluation system.  It is a complex system based on worthy language related to what it means to t...

Note: Since I wrote this post, I've thought more about professional learning communities and added new thoughts in this post --please ta...

My husband just finished reading Steve Jobs' biography , and I've been asking him many questions. Recently, I asked about Jobs and...

What do you do with vision? How do you move your ideas forward? In what ways do you analyze, refine, and challenge your own vision?  A vi...

Teaching well takes lots of prep. As I think about the topic of prep, I realize that the one or two days some systems provide for official...

There's so much to know about teaching and learning today that I'm wondering if the role of generalist is outdated? Yet, I don't...

I have started receiving many letters from innovators, writers, and educators related to their creations. They ask me to look the innovation...

How can we restructure school schedules and roles for greater student response.  As you know I'm in favor of "breaking down the wal...

When I started this new age teaching/learning journey with Twitter, blogs, edcamps, and a growing international PLN (professional learning c...

What is your educational role? Where is your professional passion taking you, and why? In this age of multiple paths, this is an impor...

Student's Paper-Cut Design Created to Inspire Story Writing  At the  The Wayland Literacy Institute   I presented my thoughts, exper...

As I look ahead to next year, I want to build in more time for students to practice writing. This year students were introduced to many ge...

To teach students well, it is important to know and understand each child well.  With large numbers of students and multiple teachers, that ...

Today's the last day of the school year for children. Teachers will return to school for one or more days to wrap up the year and begin ...

In teaching today, pacing is paramount. There's a just right weave of tools, strategies, efforts, and endeavor to teach children well,...

The end of the year is a time to celebrate and assess. We celebrate a wonderful year of friendship, learning, and growth. We assess what...

The roles of teaching and parenting are limitless roles--there's limitless potential for what we can do, yet there's limited time an...

When I first started teaching, and a child faced challenges, I sometimes blamed the family asking why? But now that I've been teaching a...