The View from Room 105

A few weeks back I tried an idea that I had tried a few years back, Social Studies stations; the upper elementary version of "centers....

Today one of my classes got upset because we skipped our daily singing of several American patriotic songs (including all of the verses of t...

From my lost files... Last night I read a blog post about our sister city, Camden, just over the bridge in New Jersey. As an urban center,...

This is how real professional development and teacher evaluation works! For a second time, one of the professors of the college where I...

On the trolley a few moments ago: I'm sitting, rereading a William Still book for the third time and a couple of early 20s get on with...

I'll be moving to a different section of the city soon. Today, as I met with the leasing agent, she noticed that I was a teacher. When i...

{Walking up 38th Street, toward the Wawa, young man walks up to me and shakes my hand. I give the "Oh Lawd, you're one of my alum f...