If you've been following me along here, you already know that I am not a "quiet class" teacher. I am a noisy, busy, bursting with excitement teacher. I like to call it.... productive chaotic sounding learning (Is that even a thing? I may have just invented something there). But if you have an extra talkative [...]

  Have you ever had a student (or few) who you hear cry in the morning before school? They don't want to leave home. They take extra long to make their way down the hallway to your classroom, sometimes hesitantly enter with tears, and sometimes stand outside, not wanting to enter at all? This has [...]

Are you sick of "shhhhh"ing your class? I'm going to go ahead and get started by just saying, I am not afraid of a noisy class. In fact, I am one of those teachers who sometimes keeps the door shut just to keep the productive chitter chatter of busy first graders in, so as not [...]