The Reading Workshop

This school year is off to a great start. As we close in on the end of the 1st nine weeks, I can't imagine things going any better. A r...

Being a student is a lot easier than it used to be.  If class gets a little boring, you can just check your email, text someone, or surf th...

Teaching Reading Workshop requires a different style than the more traditional teacher-centered lecture-based classroom. As I was reading a ...

As I sat watching the rerun of the Glee season finale from last year, it reminded me of the reason that matters most when teachers walk thr...

It was the first day of school, and like every teacher, this Super Teacher wanted to get things started off right.  You know, start the year...

Roberta Caudill and I had the opportunity to share our blogs and some blogging basics at the Logan Elm Schools waiver day.   Here are some...

Recently students in Reading Workshop wrote about the "good stuff" that they see at our school. Sometimes people forget just how ...

The Reading Workshop has been included in a list of 100 Incredibly Inspiring Blogs.  The post on What Makes a Good Teacher leads the list of...

I heard the comment the other day, "if it can't be fixed in five minutes, with what's on hand, then don't mention it."...

Want an easy way to survey your readers? Thanks to Google Docs , that is an easy task. Embedding a question into a blog post is a simple p...

Students in Reading Workshop recently took a survey, questioning their knowledge of the personality traits of their teachers on the post Who...

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In a previous post, I discussed What Makes a Good Teacher . There was an overwhelming response with many interesting comments, and opinions...

Have it your way, have it your way, have it you way, at Burger King. If you ever heard the jingle, once you heard it, then it bounced around...

Over half of the teachers in the building were at school on Friday. It seemed like they had a variety of tasks. Some were getting caught u...

Gov. Ted Strickland proposed numerous changes in education in the state of Ohio. During his State of the State address on Tuesday, January ...

We were having coffee and Oreo pie at Bob Evans . That in itself is almost perfect, but then things got even better. I looked up and a for...

Sitting at my desk yesterday, I watched the class working. As we approach the halfway point of the school year, and we get to know each oth...

What makes a great teacher--a list to live by! with thanks to Doug Johnson for sharing his idea 1. Interpersonal skills trump profession...