Student Engagement in Middle School

Student Engagement in Middle School

What does it mean to have engaged students?  Engagement is when students show interest, curiosity, and attention to a teacher’s lesson or activity.  It means students are showing persistence, and making an effort toward completing a classroom task.  A student is...
7th Grade Algebra Lessons

7th Grade Algebra Lessons

Are you having trouble finding engaging digital lessons to cover 7th grade Algebra Standards?  Tired of trying to make your own?  Students who master the 7th grade algebra standards will do well when they enter Algebra I.  And digital lessons are needed to supplement...
Math Classrooms with a Halloween Theme

Math Classrooms with a Halloween Theme

Let’s make math more fun!  This time of year especially!  Kids love Halloween!  Why not put a Halloween theme on your daily lessons and decorate with a Halloween flair?  Monsters, bats, skeletons, pumpkins, and witches can be used to decorate a classroom, or...
Digital Geometry for 7th Grade Teachers

Digital Geometry for 7th Grade Teachers

Do you need help teaching Geometry digitally?   Teachers are always searching for better ways and new materials to cover the Geometry Standards.  Since Covid-19, they’ve been expected to assign lessons digitally on sites like Google Classroom.  There are...
Teachers are Leaving the Profession.  Why?

Teachers are Leaving the Profession. Why?

Approximately 300,000 public school teachers left the profession between February 2020 and May 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  Why are they leaving?  Could we have seen this coming?  Over the past year, many teachers have taken to social media to...
Start the School Year Right

Start the School Year Right

As most veteran teachers will tell you, what you do in the early weeks of school will set the tone for the entire school year.  What should you teach in the those beginning weeks?  I’ve started each school year a little differently.  Some years the pressures...
Quit Teaching – But do not forget!

Quit Teaching – But do not forget!

I Quit Teaching.   I’ve just retired from teaching after 22 years.  The plan was to teach 4 more years.  But the thought of enduring 4 more long years was more than I could envision.  Four years is not a long time.  But under stressful conditions, it can seem an...