I told the kids in one class a fraction-related joke today. A guy walks into a restaurant and orders a pizza.  The waiter asks if the man ...

Yesterday, in our opening discussion on fractions, I asked the kids to count all of the students in the room.  Lots of sweeping glances and ...

Since this past week was my turn to do morning announcements, and the science word of the week was Magnetism, I sent a girl down yesterday w...

Today's post is a guest post from writer Aileen Pablo. ******************* As a teacher I have had the joy and the challenge of meet...

Last Thursday, my second class fooled around a lot and didn't get very much done. As a result, I sent them home with homework, while the...

This week's Learn Me Good comic strip is reminiscent of something that I actually heard in class this year.

Today I was working with one of my students who acts a lot dumber than I really think he is.  We were going over the concept of addition wit...

Last week, progress reports went out, and shortly thereafter, I got a note from a parent.  To sum up, it said that the mother was "very...

Someone pointed out to me that there was a brand new set of learning standards on the Texas Education Agency website , so I took a look. I...

The good news is that I Coulda Caught That Pass is sitting at #1 on the Kindle ebook nonfiction sports football (American) list. WOOHOO!!...

My new book -- I Coulda Caught That Pass! (a true story about fake football) -- is FREE today and tomorrow on the Kindle! Please grab a co...

Several posts of note today: Conversation during science time: Me: Thomas Edison invented the first machine that could show movies. Stud...

The Learn Me Good comic strip has gone bi-weekly! Here it is!

It's almost here!  The final touches have been put on my fantasy football book, just in time for the NFL season to begin.  My book is ca...

I'm a little late posting this week's Learn Me Good comic strip to the blog.  For you guys who were anxiously anticipating it, I apo...

After seeing some of the responses from non-teachers on my recent DMN blog post -- where the overriding argument seems to be that if you d...

Saw this story on Yahoo yesterday, about a grade school kid in Oklahoma who was disciplined for the shirt he wore to school and ordered to ...

Here's this week's Learn Me Good comic strip, based on a true event that happened last year.  I was NOT expecting her to say that! ...

I wrote a post over the weekend, and I was going to post it here, but instead I asked the editor of the education blog at the Dallas Morning...