Cynthia Carbone Ward, in her introduction to her book, How Writers Grow: A Guide for Middle School Teachers , quotes Carl Jung: "An und...

Or rather, plenty to write, but too busy grading what others have written.

A couple of years ago I came to the conclusion that there are four seasons in Tecwil: mouse season, tick season, mosquito season, and ant se...

Lately several people have been posting some great advice for new teachers, but lots of it is applicable to ALL teachers. Take a look and s...

You have to love the Non-Aligned Movement . It's made up of, as this article points out , 118 nations representing two-thirds of the po...

Matsu and I recently had an entertaining conversation in the comments of this post (entertaining to me, at least) about President Bush...

Along with all the other terrible costs of war to a society, it keeps kids from going to school. This new report from Save the Children s...

This year I am reading a book aloud to my 7th and 8th graders. I've already finished the first novel with my 8th graders and am now rea...

Here's an interesting letter about a young girl who wrote to Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the 1980s.

If you haven't read/heard/seen enough today about 9/11, here's the BBC's coverage . Take a look at the Global Voices feature f...

Tomorrow, as everyone knows, is the fifth anniversary of September 11th, 2001. Here is a link to the list of participants in 2,996 , a pro...

I really enjoy reading teacher blogs. Here are a couple I just discovered, via blogrolls of others I discovered a while ago: Se Hace Camino...

This article about the trauma suffered by the children of New York on September 11th was sad reading. I can only imagine how terrible that...

I've been browsing over at the latest Education Carnival . I definitely want to file away this idea for future reference. I'm not ...

I've heard of creative excuses (I'm a teacher - I hear them every day!), but this one is in a class of its own.

I've been reading about the gardening concept from China and Japan called "shakkei," or "borrowed view." A gardener...

My students turned in their summer reading assignments the first day of school. At least, lots of them did. They had to read three books a...

Here's a tragic story from New York. More details here.

Today is theme day for the Daily Photo blogs, and the theme this time is Doorways. You can start at the Paris Daily Photo site and you...

I can't believe this story. This geography teacher was suspended for flying foreign flags in his classroom. He's teaching geograp...