Confessions of a Crafty Middle School Teacher

I decided I wanted to do something fun and new with my 6th graders this year when teaching about President Nixon. I found myself wondering w...

Update! This is available on my Teachers Pay Teachees website . Please check it out!  It has been a while since I wrote and for that, I a...

Learning Targets is a great strategy to utilize in the classroom. It helps students understand what they are learning and helps them take o...

With only 9 school days left, I am beginning to spazz about getting all my material covered. I know I have taught the essential skills my ...

I have been sharing this strategy and learning tool at various workshops and I have been asked to provide people with step by step instructi...

Wow, we have been hit with this "polar vortex" and it has made teaching very sporadic lately. I struggled trying to get my WWII un...

If you are like me, sometimes you may struggle with making the word wall relevant or a tool that students use frequently. At the beginning ...