Are we done yet? How many times have you heard this question when working with young children? Particularly, if you work in a small group setting like I do as a tutor, this question is quite common. It doesn’t matter how much fun the children are having. It doesn’t matter how much…

Even though I teach reading, I always incorporate a social skill learning target into our lesson. My school has all small groups incorporating a social skill into the learning target (just like classroom teachers)…

There are two times of the year that I would find myself sitting and reflecting on my classroom atmosphere more than any other time — the beginning of the year and the end of the year. Year after year, a goal of mine was to do more celebrating of character in my classroom. At the end of the day, I knew that sending my students out as little people who display quality character was…

Students begin to get antsy toward the end of the year. They become bold in their actions and that often leads to misbehavior and wild classes… which leads to frustrated, frazzled teachers. To avoid this…

It’s that time of year when things are starting to wind down. It’s after state testing, and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I teach juniors and seniors, and senioritis starts to creep in about March for the seniors who know their days in public education are just about over. Well, what if those feelings of apathy, tiredness, discontent, and general aggravation aren’t just coming from the students? What if you – the teacher – are starting to feel the summer slide, too…