Process Over Product: Shifting the Mindset

I have a high school senior homeroom. I don’t even remember how it started, but I was appalled that one of my students didn’t know a basic math fact: something like 2 * 7. So I started filling homeroom with quizzing students on times tables, giving them minute worksheets, etc. I

So today at the high school we had an instance of bullying occur. It happened in the girls locker room. A group of three girls who are all Juniors decided to make fun of a sophomore girl. They were teasing her about not being as develop physically as they were. They're basically

Naturally we started to think “oh, so maybe she just knows she’ll get the extra help so she really doesn’t have to do much”. So I started telling her “I saw your reading scores and I know you can spell “where” without my help”. Turns out on her reading test……SHE HAD A READER. Som

There is a NYTimes article that recently came out diving into the overall decline of people who read for fun. We are at 16% as of 2023. (“Fewer People Are Reading For Fun, Study Finds”) That’s sad enough, but I feel the most significant part of the article is the following sectio

To set the stage, I teach English II and English III. In all my classes, we are currently doing book clubs. In these book clubs, my students have to write notes on LITERALLY ANYTHING. Do they like it? Who's your favorite character? What character do you absolutely hate? Can you m

My department has been reading "The Giver" with our 8th graders for the last 12 years. I've done it personally the last 3 years. Chapters 4 and 5 are always a lot of fun with the kids because I read it out loud with them, and the awkwardness is always funny and engaging. Honestly