I've really been trying to come up with new activities for my classes. I don't think I worksheet them to death or anything, but I do want them to...

Week 2, huzzah!Supplies: Liz Tamanaha’s Project Life Midnight Edition and Elise Blaha Cripe’s Seafoam Edition, Ali Edwards’ CK font, and the small...

Today was a good day.I LOVE my 8th graders this year. They are too funny.They're also all super dorky. But I'm dorky, too, and I think that's why I...

It has been raining like crazy around here.  Somehow I've been fortunate to not get caught in anything heavier than a mist, despite a three mile...

Today I am happy to be a teacher. It's hard a lot of the time. I know last year it was hard because the group of students I had were just... not...

Lately it's been busy around here. Lesson planning and curriculum designing + being a photographers wife are time consuming. Sometimes I wish I had...

This school year started with a bang and has just kept going! Every day I think, "I should blog that!" And then I spend my prep period actually...

Last year my classroom was really, really small. Like, really small. Thirty-four junior highers did not help.Over the summer I got the most amazing...

Yep. It's almost time again. Summer's remaining weeks are meager at best, and it's time to face the cold hard truth: school will be upon us all too...

Saturday, July 6Who's ready for a trip to New York! Okay, here we go!Ryan drove us to the airport early Saturday morning to catch our first flight...