Coaching Science

I had wanted to try to blog on an almost daily basis about what I was doing with students in my classroom this year but that is pie-in-the-s...

This week our 8th grade teachers (myself included) tried hard to channel our inner Dave Burgess (via Teach Like a Pirate). We started our fi...

I asked students to give a word that describes themselves (though some gave a sentence). Here is what they think:

Today was my first day with students. We had students on campus yesterday but students were in advisory all day long.  We took a page from D...

Two weeks or so ago, I got the opportunity to moderate the science Teach Like a Pirate chat (#scitlap). A teacher colleague, Andrea Kornow...

I recently had the opportunity to teach an all-day district wide professional development for primarily science teachers.  The feedback was ...

Cohesiveness has been one of the strengths of my department. We are small, we have been on the same page about student success and we enjoy ...