Green persimmons contain a lot of tannins, which affect the tongue like alum. Touch your tongue to a really green persimmon and you'll dry up so...
Here's ours: http://www.pinterest.com/stevespangler/ We have a Special Learners board, too:...
Yes. Definitely. WAY too much emphasis.
It's that time of year again, and time for my annual rant about community school supplies. I know that some of you think they're the greatest...
"Good Morning, Miss Dove" is my all-time favorite 'teacher movie.'
Here are some excellent education chats on Twitter - there's something for every level and subject!...
I always had a really difficult and complicated jigsaw puzzle set up in the back of my room. There were art supplies back there, too. Early...
http://www.pinterest.com/stevespangler/ We have several collaborative boards, too, that any of you are welcome to sign up for. Participation...
I have one and I love it!
I teach on three different campuses, often all on one day. It's a half hour to the one in the north, and almost an hour to the one in the south,...
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I'm a firm believer in prizes, but not for doing what you're supposed to do anyway. I reserve prizes for students who go above and beyond.
Twitter is wonderful. The Education Chat on Tuesdays is the best PD I've ever experienced. #edchat If you follow silly, vapid people, you'll...
My situation is probably different, since I now teach at the college level, but I encourage the use of smartphones, iPads, laptops, and any/every...
89.4 = no. 89.5 = yes. Students get what they earn. No earn = no get. Grade inflation benefits nobody, not even those who beg for it....
I love rewarding good, hardworking, careful, quirky, honest students as often as possible. The other kind, not so much.
Speaking as someone who had a rubber chicken hanging over her desk, and an active lava lamp and disco ball going all the time. . . . I function...
There will always be "those" people, and it's better to have them together than ruin the good kids' education by putting a few in each good class....
There ARE teachers who take advantage of their days and use them when they're not sick, or go shopping a LOT, etc, but I hate it when all of us...
Shouldn't the entire school be a safe zone? No dangerous student should be allowed in it. I'm sorry, but no. No bullying, violent, dangerous...
