March is Women’s History Month, and while it’s always important to have strong women represented in your classroom library, WHM is a great reason to showcase books about them.… Read the rest
Books to Make Your Students Better People
Books move people. These books will help you instill values in, have important conversations with, and build community with your students and children.
… Read the restThe 3 Must Take Steps To Teach Similes and Metaphors
Why is it always such a struggle to teach similes and metaphors? Why are similes as easy for students to grasp as 1+1, but metaphors are a map without a key?… Read the rest
Following the Olympics in the Classroom
The beauty of using the Olympics in the classroom is that there is built-in excitement. Subjects that students can find boring – fraction, research, graphing – are suddenly made fresh and fun using the real-life from the Games.… Read the rest