Happy summer, everyone! I wanted to share some resources I created to help teach Informational Text Structures. They'll be a free downlo...

We use PBIS as our school-wide (and district-wide) behavior management tool. Among other initiatives, we have Cougar Cash that we can pass ...

I teach each year in themed units, and my first unit of the year is always survival. Considering I teach in a sixth grade only school, just...

Last year I had a goal to create and hang a wreath in my classroom for each of the months/holidays/seasons. I made it to October before I ju...

It's that time again - BACK TO SCHOOL! I'm already a week behind on the blog...there is no busy like back to school busy, and no tir...

This year I was privileged to teach two intervention language arts classes along with my two honors classes. My intervention classes were s...

We are getting back in the swing of things, and I'm exhausted! A new schedule this year has my head spinning...We went from three 85 min...