Teachers Need More TLC

Since this year marks 7 years in the classroom it’s a good time to talk about teacher burn out and … More

Class and Team Building

This past week I attended a conference about using Kagan strategies for team building and class building. I first heard … More

Probably the hardest facet of teaching is differentiating instruction. Now that I’ve been teaching for five years and I have a … More

I just finished another great read for teachers called Teaching as Leadership. I wanted to read this book because I … More

Last week was Edcamp St. Louis. As part of the planning team, I was excited to help bring together over 800 … More

Recently I finished the book “Teach Like a Pirate.” I have to say: what a fantastic reminder of why I–and … More

Two weeks ago we had our monthly session for the Missouri Teacher Academy. This month’s topic was student engagement. We combined … More