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The dread of every teacher and parent- a whole page of work a student has toiled over for hours, and it's completely illegible!  Fine ...

Independent Language Work It sounds like a dream, doesn't it?  Your whole class, focused independently on meaningful language developme...

I'm excited to announce that I finally finished writing a new unit that helps students research a Greek mythology character, take note...

This is a fun project that my students enjoy doing a few weeks before St. Patrick's Day.  First I read aloud from a few different St. ...

What is your favorite back-to-school teacher hack?  What do you always forget about until you step foot in your classroom in the fall?  I...

Want to save a few thousand dollars each year with some small changes?  Check out my new blog, PennywisePursuit.blogspot.com to do just that...

Instead of having the same, boring table group names for the entire year, I like to mix things up and make them educational at the same tim...