The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior

The Positive Classroom: Helping Children with Challenging Behavior: The education news last week in New Jersey focused on a teacher who got caught bullying a 15-year-old child. The child captured the teache...

technology rocks. seriously.: School Signs

technology rocks. seriously.: School Signs: Just click on the printable to go to the downloadable PDF version.  You can also right click and save each image as a JPG.  If you hav...

Math-n-spire: Area & Perimeter {Math Lab on Rectangles}

Math-n-spire: Area & Perimeter {Math Lab on Rectangles}: In addition to teaching middle school math, I am also teaching high school Geometry this year. I hated Geometry when I was in school, but n...

Math-n-spire: Math Notebook {Notes}

Math-n-spire: Math Notebook {Notes}: After my post on Integers , I received a few emails and comments asking for more pictures on the "math notebook". So I've put together a ste...

Origami poesie di carta: Bialbero di Natale (multialbero)

Origami poesie di carta: Bialbero di Natale (multialbero): Nel progettare questo modello ho pensato ai bambini, quindi a qualcosa di semplice da piegare e nello stesso tempo versatile. ...

Teaching with TLC: Journal Jar

Teaching with TLC: Journal Jar: This photograph and activity is shared with permission from  Organized Christmas . I recently found a creative way to introduce chi...

The Inspired Classroom: About to Start Weather

The Inspired Classroom: About to Start Weather: In a week, my class will be moving on from the scientific method to weather. In order to activate prior knowledge (and also to ensure a...