She sat in my room after an afternoon meeting and wanted to talk about my faults. I let her talk. What was I supposed to do? Tell her to leave my room again? I wanted to go home, but I stayed. She talked almost non-stop (she hates being interrupted and Read More...

I sent her an email of friendship to hope that she was calmed down. She answered back in all caps and it was definitly a screaming email. She flat out lied. She said "someone" at the meeting made these suggestions to take back to her team. She was the Read More...

Picture it! A chubby fairly tall older woman, dancing around the room with all her loose skin and body parts flapping. That was me today. I love payday. It means someone brings breakfast to the staff lounge. It was 3rd grade this week. It means getting Read More...

The district was offering a class on Instruction that works by Marazano. (I have already been trained in Marazano's data based instruction and found it confusing. But then, I only listened to about half of the presentation because the room was so warm Read More...

I have a tiny little peanut sized boy in my class. I am having problems with him. He is the most immature student I have had since I had a seven year old gifted girl in my class. In fact, I think she was more mature than he is. Peanut has been home schooled Read More...

I am curious why schools are using blogs to post lessons, communicate with teachers on their staff and etc. Wouldn't it be easier and more private to use email? I had to read the note to the 4th grade because I teach fourth grade and I wanted to see what Read More...