It's almost the end of 2011, and as has become tradition, I've put together a little year-end wrap-up. Enjoy, and be safe during ...

Friday was our last day of school before the Christmas Break, and there were SEVERAL stand-out moments from the day to last in memory for so...

'Twas the night before Christmas (Break), and all through the house, Just one creature was blogging, while using his mouse. Tomorrow is ...

The good folks at Worth Ave. Group are sponsoring a contest to give away a few nice hefty technology grants to America's favorite teach...

We frequently do word problems in class. And the method that we enforce is called UPSC, which stands for Understand, Plan, Solve, and Check...

Our focus for this week in science is strength and direction of forces. This morning, when I asked my homeroom what "strength" mea...

Hey everyone, It's time to get your Christmas shopping done, so I'd like to make a vailable a couple of ideas for your loved ones. F...

Hey all, It's Thanksgiving Thursday, and I've been fighting off the turkey sweats and tryptophan coma, watching my fantasy football ...

Sometimes I cringe to think about the way I used to have the kids solve word problems. In our standard problem solving model, where the fir...

Thanks to Matthew at Look at My Happy Rainbow , I have a new top blog to check out on a regular basis. He posted an excerpt on Facebook from...

Lately, we've been having a lot of interruptions at my school. I'm not talking about the kind that involves little Billy bursting i...

Tutoring started this week, so now I get to answer the question, "Is today tutoring?" about 512 times every day. I would normally...

Man, is it nice to sleep in on Saturday (unlike my poor wife who had to get up and go to a math training today). A few quick hits today. Fir...

I've learned over the past few days that my kids have absolutely no working knowledge whatsoever of money. Sure, most of them can ident...

Teaching two sections of 3rd grade, I've often commented on how the 2 classes seem like entirely different entities. But never so much ...

Catching up time here. I've either been too busy, despondent, or hungry to post much lately, and a little housekeeping is in order. Fir...

There's a local radio station here in Dallas called The Ticket that had a really funny interaction a few years ago, and they still play ...

I've been thinking it over lately, and I've decided to go ahead and do it. It worked (somewhat) with the first one, so maybe it...

It's truly amazing how quickly things can change, on a dime, as the old saying goes. This week has proven that. Monday was one of the m...

Just a couple of quick hits today: First, the new Carnival of Education is up and running over at Bellringers. The theme is Meet the Teac...