This holiday season is yours. How will you make it matter? Maybe you’d like to be more present, selfless, or creative. Perhaps you’d like to be more fun, friendly, or…

You walk into a classroom and immediately, 24 sets of eyes stare curiously, judgmentally, and directly at you. Despite the visual attention, you feel completely alone and, as silently as…

Last year, I walked into my classroom and found this pink, painted… thing… sitting on my desk. I remember staring at it for a few seconds. “What is it?!” After eight…

As middle school teachers, we know that our students are experiencing a staggering amount of change during their adolescent years… particularly in their brain. In fact, our students are experiencing…

(Continued from Take a Peek Inside The Mind of a Middle Schooler: Part 1) In our first installment we shared three mind-blowing facts, this image about how middle schoolers learn (see below), and…