Welcome to what we hope will be an organized collection of thoughts about what makes a classroom work. For the rest of this summer and beyond, we will be thinking about many of these questions, though surely not all of them. If you follow our RSS feed.

No more theory, put it into practice. This quarter has been a roller coaster. It began with a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school, on December 14. I sat down and cried, and found solace in a song. T and made my thoughts public. It was hard, but I feel it is important to always remember that our students have a lot going on in their lives that they may not tell us about, but that can immensely impact their school life.

Teaching is Like a Contortionist. This quarter has been full, eventful, exciting, demanding, tiring. I could go on and on. So how have I grown at being public as a teacher since January? I must admit that, this quarter, I did not take the time to comment on outside blogs. I felt very pressed for time and this was one of the elements in my life that I let slide.

Salsa from New York City? My state of mind. Blogging through the Fourth Dimension.

I have been told that the highlight of this season comes when these student teams get to take on the teachers. student game? March 19, 2013. Last week I had the opportunity to watch some of my students participate in the play Willy Wonka Junior. They did a fantastic job! March 19, 2013. Another quarter here and gone. Who reply to my blogs, which allows .

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Ponderings of a teacher in training. This quarter, I would have to say that I am starting to get more and more comfortable with teaching. Spending some time up in front of the classroom has always been a nerve wracking thought for me before I started student teaching. But as I think back through my ongoing experience with my students in front of the board, I would say that it is easier than I have imagined it! In that post, I talked about my worries as a new teacher and how classroom mana.