Donate Now If you asked me to choose my favorite thing about teaching, it would definitely not be breaking up fights. But I do it. A lot. Today it was another girl fight, my personal favorite. It happened across the hall, as the substitute teacher just stood there gawking. One of my kids was smart…

Donate Now “I heard a certain seventh grader smoked weed in Spanish class last week.” “WELL, I heard five students were pregnant!” “I once had a student who was a prostitute…” This was the conversation that dominated our faculty meeting today. Middle School is full of drama, way more drama than you might imagine. I…

Did you know that in a nest of termites, the eggs all hatch at the same time? It’s this crazy natural phenomenon. How do I know? Hundreds of termites hatched at the same time, in my friend’s classroom across the hall. In the middle of my lesson on the rock cycle, she came in yelling…

Here’s a funny way to teach 2-step equations. My kids loved it today and it was pretty hilarious. See below: 3x + 4=16 Class, do you see that problem on the board? Well, I have a secret to tell you. I think that X is looking mighty fine today and I want to take him…

The TAKS test is in about 10 weeks. TAKS, or the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, is our state’s high stakes test (according to No Child Left Behind all states have them). The test haunts my dreams, and I swear its name is whispered by the air vents in my classroom. Everywhere I turn,…