• February. Making the turn into Assessment Alley. Revised schedules. Computer labs are reserved. MacBook carts are off limits. Time is tight to [...]

  6 Questions to Prepare for the New School Year

  July 24, 2015
•                                                           Discipline Teacher focused Student focused What is it? [...]

  Discipline: Teacher Focused vs Student Focused

  March 14, 2015
• As conference time is upon us, I am reminded of one of my major career “catapult” moments: initiating student led conferences. As I [...]

  Increase Rigor by Relinquishing Control

  February 21, 2015
• If we had to host our own detentions… how many would we write? how would we want student behavior impacted as a result? how would we work [...]

  The Power of Detentions

  January 26, 2015

•   The best teachers have great relationships with students. Part of this can be attributed to who they are at heart, but part is also [...]

  Discipline to Build Student Relationships

  December 22, 2014
• 3 ways to support mainstream differentiation...

  GenEd Differentiation: SPED’s Been Ahead of the Game for Years

  October 1, 2014
• Are your meetings effective? Here are 6 types of meetings...

  Meetings That Work–and Get Work Done!

  September 29, 2014
• Kids? Politics? Both?   The best part about our profession of education is…kids! Most–if not all–of us teach on the most [...]

  50 Shades of Grey: An Educational Conundrum

  August 30, 2014

• Many have leadership titles, but our true leaders exhibit leadership behaviors. Some are listed here. Certainly not an exhaustive list, nor set [...]

  Leaders: Strive to be the Weak Link

  May 4, 2014
• This reflection is inspired by a culmination of things, but most recently a conversation with an aspiring teacher, and this recent post by [...]

  “What the He**’s Going On Out Here?!?” ~Vince Lombardi

  April 19, 2014