How to Deep-Dive into Your Child's Obsessions

I can't get over this. I teach 3rd grade at a title 1 school, so I decided to splurge a little bit on my students this year. I bought them all a set of personalized pencils, cute pencil cases based on their personal interests, and some erasers. Around $6/kid, and I have 45 studen

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

Friday was interesting because apparently during second period a teacher had a mini meltdown and told the students she was quitting. Cue the swarm of students going throughout the school saying that this teacher lost her shit and is quitting. We quashed it down on our hallway but

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