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I am SO very honored and excited to be collaborating with a beautiful, smart, creative, and VERY talented group of passionate Arizona educa...

If you read my last blog post, you probably already have a sense of how passionate I am about teaching kids about responsibility and emotion...

Good control of the hand/wrist muscles makes learning to write SO much easier.  Kids who struggle with fine motor strength and/or stami...

This was by far the best "close read" of  informational text we have done so far! It took TIME to do. The first day we read the te...

We practice SO much on letters, sounds, phonemes everyday. Why is it that some of our kids still struggle after so many exposures? We kn...

Hi! Today I am blogging over at Hello Sunshine ! Come on over and check out the post. . . there's even a little freebie for you to grab!...

"Play is the highest form of research." ~Albert Einstein "Play is often talked about as if it were relief from serio...

This list might not be what you think... maybe since it's summer you thought teachers might like a nice vacation, a good book, or...

Thanksgiving is a natural time to teach & learn about the meaning of thanksgiving, and what that means and can look like in ou...

Yesterday I got the sweetest note from a teacher named Ann in New York. She was telling me about how much her kids love my close reads! That...