Category : “Books”

Enemy, Obstacle, Trap, Puzzle, Lie, Truth

March 23, 2021Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs

Can you find the six title words in the puzzle above? A book I finished last week provides insights I’d never considered before about how to view problems. In the novel The Nix, Nathan Hill tells the story of a

What Are You Reading?

December 14, 2020Rachel Perugini Books, Education, Literacy

As I write these words, Arizona officially is number 1 in the nation for the spread of COVID-19. Cases are spiking higher than we’ve seen since July. Teachers staged sick-outs this week as school boards voted to ignore state benchmarks

Music, Reading, and Math Oh My!

March 5, 2020Susan Collins Books, Literacy

ROAR! Students march around my classroom like proud, royal lions as Camille Saint-Saens music plays. The month of March is known to come in like a lion and out like a lamb. That’s why I always use this active listening

Ish

February 12, 2020Randi Fielding Books, Education

This month I had a super cool opportunity to present at the National Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Conference in Portland, Oregon. The title of my presentation was “Co-Teach-ish.” You may be wondering how they let me in with a

Controlled Chaos

December 2, 2019Rachel Perugini Books, Life in the Classroom, Literacy

I did a Google search for “Teaching is…” and the first four auto-filled responses were a work of heart, a walk in the park, my jam, and my superpower. Yes, teaching is all of those things, but it was surprising

Can I Still Teach?

November 22, 2019Jaime Festa-Daigle Books, Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Literacy

This past summer, I joined one of my community’s Rotary Clubs. For years I had gone to Rotary as a teacher and requested funds for this or that project or to share this or that school update or student success.

The Extra Degree

September 30, 2019Kyle Bragg Books, Education, Elementary, Love, Mentoring, Sports, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

As a college athlete, coaches constantly challenged our team, especially in the weight room and at practice. Being “good enough” was not an option. They taught us to push through a last repetition or to finish a certain drill, because

Monster

February 5, 2018Treva Jenkins Books, Life in the Classroom

“The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help. That way even if you sniffle a little they won’t hear you.” This is just one of

Destress in Seconds

January 2, 2018Sandy Merz Books

John Maeda, wanting to write a simple book about keeping things simple, set the goal of limiting The Laws of Simplicity, to 100 pages. Likewise, my goal is to take about 100 words to recommend a powerful, seconds long, de-stressing meditation, that I

Culturally Responsive Teaching: When It’s Silly and When It’s Not

December 14, 2017Sandy Merz Books, Current Affairs, Education Policy, Professional Development

Culturally Responsive Teaching leads to much serious discussion about how best to welcome and teach students who come to us from innumerable ethnic, racial, and cultural backgrounds. It also leads to much silliness. On the silly side, one can find this quote

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