This afternoon the Mighty Minnows and I spent a lot of time considering our five senses, and there was a fantastic unexpected development ...

You bet I'm a charter member of Students First .  I agree generally with its whole platform and I admire the straight-talking leadership...

Back before Thanksgiving, when I asked the children to list what they were thankful for, I went for variety by specifying some categories:  ...

Maybe it's a teacher thing, or maybe it's just me:  I am inordinately excited by the arrival of a new rug for my classroom.  (We...

It's all about apples in Room 144 right now, with a little leaf work on the side and pumpkins on their way.  This is despite the fact th...

The Mighty Minnows of Room 144 are almost literally splishing and splashing down the hall this week due to the many inches of rain that have...

The poetry version of last week's first-grade effort to grasp character traits... On the outside, you can see my physical traits: ...

"CONCLUSION [OF THE MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION]: ...because we find that the local board has failed to provide any rationale fo...

Who Am I? The trees ask me, And the sky, And the sea asks me Who am I? The grass asks me, And the sand, And the rocks ask me Who I am. The w...

"Who are you?" I've spent time sitting through the "Students at a Glance" meeting and talking with other teachers ab...

Those of us who thrive in the classroom environment have now been out of school long enough to be thinking of "next year." (Actual...

We have arrived at the last poem in the charter school application. I post it from a position of even greater optimism than usual, after a ...