I’ve been thinking A LOT about independent learners, and this week, I’ve really been focusing on how I’ve seen independent learning benefit my personal life.  Whenever I try to really dissect a new skill that I want to teach, it’s helpful for me to connect it to myself and my own learning. So I’ve been…

The name of my book is Building a Bridge from “I Can’t” to “I DID!”, which if we think about it in terms of the classroom, the theme is pretty evident.  However, what does this actually mean?  How do we move students to success?  How do we actually build that bridge? Well, the subtitle of…

YES! Here is a section from my book, Building a Bridge from “I Can’t” to “I DID!”. “It is what it is.” Traffic, other peoples’ actions, the weather, the way dinner comes out of the oven sometimes. Using this phrase is appropriate to many situations we encounter in life to help us accept the things…

Culturally Responsive teaching is starting to become a more prevalent conversation in the world of education.  Although I think it is often misunderstood as a relationship building or classroom management idea, it is absolutely about moving our students, no matter their background, ethnicity, socio-economic status, or language proficiency level to be their absolute best.  It…

Today I want to bring up a tough topic, and I bring it up not as the expert opinion, but as a person – just wanting to do want is right. This has been on my mind for a while…and then I went to my first son’s first baseball game with a new team.  As…