Making Grammar Relevant

I teach 3rd grade, and there's a shy girl in my class who rarely speaks. She doesn't raise her hand, eats lunch alone, and only answers questions with nods or whispers. I've been trying to reach her through small gestures: leaving encouraging notes on her papers, asking about her

Never really got the whole purpose of jeans days. Personally I really don’t think kids learn any more or less based on what a person is wearing. I wore a shirt and tie with slacks and dress shoes every day my first year and the kids berated the shit out of me. However, if you fee

[https://www.the74million.org/article/there-really-was-a-mississippi-miracle-in-reading-states-should-learn-from-it/](https://www.the74million.org/article/there-really-was-a-mississippi-miracle-in-reading-states-should-learn-from-it/) Mississippi struggles from all the usual demo

As a former "high potential" kid with imposter syndrome, this is something I've always struggled to internalize. If I read a piece of text, I'm able to understand it fairly quickly but if someone asks me to explain it to them even a few minutes later, I'm left drawing blanks. As

My son (10m) has benefited greatly from his IEP and co-learning environment. All of it funded through the Department of Education. If the government shuts it down, I don't know what will happen to my son and the many MANY others who benefit from it. I'm sorry to vomit this out he

Parents, don’t get mad at the teachers, be mad at the administrators who were so stupid and got duped into forcing teacher to teach this stupid way of teaching kids how to read. https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/07/california-adopting-phonics/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=W