At long last, I’m sitting on my couch at 7:31pm, gazing out the window and barely believing that I don’t have a stack of essays to grade or plans for the next day to type out. I’m done. I did it. I successfully completed my second year of teaching. Many people have asked if the… Continue reading Second Year of Teaching – the Year They Became My Family

The very last assessment I gave this school year was one required by the state on a civics topic, and [ironically], I chose to have my 5th-graders debate and write their opinion piece on standardized testing. Why, you might ask? Because a) the topic had to be a controversial one (which standardized testing most definitely… Continue reading In Their Own Words – What Kids Think of Standardized Testing