It’s About the Kids

One of the biggest things that we miss in class, perhaps because we are teachers, is what the kids are seeing and experiencing as we

Another Parent Letter

Much of what we focus on here in our group is our mental health - it is a major topic. A big aspect of protecting

There are a lot of readers here who are just getting started with CI. That's great. But there are also many of us with strong

This is a repost from 2008. Are the ideas expressed below still true? What is actually going on in our own districts re: CI instruction? It

The point about being happy – everyone in the classroom being happy – is at the crux of our discussion, or should be. For many

When we think about our roles as language teachers, the most important aspect of our work is to love our children and give them hope

Personally, I don't like the pressure to create a great story in every class. There is the idea out there that the teacher has to

How to get structure and still retain what one might call an "intuitive" curriculum? So let's say we have a choice of our basic types

We must remember to have empathy for our kids, for how hard it is for them to even live sometimes. I want to try to do three

This is a repost from 2007: If new teachers, in their efforts to satisfy some kind of benchmark on some pacing guide, forget the kid, they