Fourth and Fritcher

The post-Thanksgiving time is upon us. If you are just starting to plan for the Christmas season , this blog may help you organize your thou...

Parent/Teacher conferences can be nerve-racking; but they don't have to be. Trying to cover academics and behavior in the short bursts o...

For a while now my collegues and I have been frustrated by the lack of writing being done at the elementary level. That's not to say it ...

I've been teaching for over 20 years. It's never been like this. Ever.  Some of my hardest weeks occurred in the last 2 months of sc...

I remember when paired texts made their way onto the reading stage. Students would read one fiction text and one nonfiction text. They would...

What if there were reading response organizers that were rigorous, differentiated, and flexible enough to be used with any lesson? And they ...