As an immature, proud, and inexperienced 20 year old, I applied to teach at Tidings of Peace Christian...
In the past few years, a spotlight has turned on child abuse, particularly child abuse in the places where...
Over on the forums , Jane Bauman asks a question that surely vexes us all: “What are ways to help older...
Photo by Ulises Baga on Unsplash The school board asked if you would be their first-grade teacher, and you...
“Thank you for entrusting your children to me this year. It is a responsibility I take very seriously. Please...
In this long stretch from beginning of the school year to Thanksgiving, the “honeymoon” is over. Here are...
“Are you ready for school to start?” 180 school days ago, I began a post with this question . I was looking...
Generation Alpha students are the children who have been born in the years after 2010. They are growing up...
Photo by Elisa Michelet on Unsplash “My lunch is better than yours!” “I don’t like my drawing. Johnny can...
“Teachers have a big impact and people remember their teachers years later. I had lots of great teachers and...
I still remember reciting the seven continents with my fellow small-bodied second graders, remember the exact...
Image by Jim Varga from Pixabay Communication can make or break your school year. From the onset, you want to...
Pizza?! Y’all are ordering two pizzas? All of you are getting pizza, and none of you is going to try anything...
Over the last several years, I have spent significant time trying to understand and implement the best...
The most memorable object lesson I heard as a child was told to me by an old preacher with a gray beard. I...
What parents want most from teachers. Hm. Is this even a thing? Isn’t this like asking what a woman wants in...
Photo by Jakob on Unsplash “Are you grading for spelling on this?” a middle-school-aged student asked about...
Conservative Anabaptist schools bless many communities. It is common for the average student in a private...
Yesterday we tried the response technique of NEWS. I wrote NEWS vertically on the whiteboard and some of the...
It seems all teachers are very busy right now, going to meetings and workshops, working on lesson plans and...
