I  have recently heard parents openly talking about teachers and why or why not they don't want their children in a particular teacher's room next year.  They freely discuss teachers while going about their own daily lives like it's the same thing as exchanging recipes.  Casual conversations overheard at children's birthday parties, ...

...to GLBTQII teachings in the classroom.  Can students handle it?  Can parents?  What about teachers? Should students be taught from early on, or does this subject take a certain level of maturity? How would one approach such a subject/lesson?  Has anyone taught gender issues in their classroom before, are ...

This is fast, easy, and informative for me!  Also, you can compare your views with those of others by checking out the rankings at the end!    Click Here to take survey

I created this blog because I want to find out from teachers, administrators, and parents their thoughts on implementing a more diversified curriculum for students. The current curriculum, I feel based on my own experiences with the educational system, is extremely limited.  We need to be pro-active with students if we want them to become ...

Summers go by fast, and before you know it, school is back in session.  It's easy for students to forget some of those reading skills during those "lazy, hazy, crazy" days of summer, and a lot of parents are looking for summer reading ideas.  Readingrockets.org has a list of awesome ideas to print and hand out to your students ...

Students today don't face the same consequences for misbehaving or not doing their work that their parents and grandparents faced.  One thing that really stands out to me is that a lot of parents are more likely to support their kids than the school.  It is seldom the child's fault.  Parents used to fly into action to support the ...

For some strange reason, I am always cynical about surveys.  It seems like people spout off information, and use it to support their own causes.  What really happens with the accumulated data anyway?  For a few years we were able to evaluate our schools and their leaders in a very secretive system at the end of the the year.  ...

I once had a student turn in a beautifully written composition that I knew was not his work.  When I talked to his mother, she told me, ''Of course, I did it.  You know he can't write.''  Parents sometimes feel that they have to help out with projects because other parents are raising the bar.  One of my friends explained to me ...

Some teachers (and probably parents) have had enough of the ''whatev-ah'' response.  Even preschoolers are saying it.  The word sort of stops you in your tracks and makes you think that whatever you are saying must not be important.  It's a catch-all response which can mean many things, commonly ''I don't care'', but ...

Pizza Hut's Book It program has been around since 1985 and has motivated a lot of kids to get into reading.  With all of the concern about childhood obesity, some people feel that it is time to not Book It.  You've read the book, now eat the pizza. Since 1985, that's been the gist of Pizza Hut's Book It, an incentive program used by ...