One  of my favorite things to say when I'm teaching is "You have to do the Maslow stuff before you do the Bloom's stuff." ...

 Last week, I was sitting in the teacher's lounge at a middle school where I was substituting. The teachers sitting around me started ta...

 When I was in my 20s, I used to say that I was very lucky. I was very lucky that every time I had really needed a job, one had appeared.  I...

 I am sitting in a classroom with one student who is quietly working on her AP French work. This isn't my classroom, isn't my studen...

 I am sitting in a public library 40 minutes from my house while my oldest daughter runs a Dungeons and Dragons for beginners program downst...

This morning I got the official email from a school district saying "thanks for applying but we've decided to move forward with ano...

  “Should I stab my own eye out with a knitting needle instead of writing?” says the 14 year old sitting so close to me on the couch, I am r...