My #OneWord For Teaching and My Classroom This Year  "Purpose" Every activity we do should help kids focus on at least o...

The Superpowers of Sticky Notes! Check out these fun bookmarks for your students to reference during reading.  They highlight the st...

The ISTE experience has become one of the highlights of my personal professional development.  I enjoy meeting people from around the world,...

Thankful for the life of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Laureate.  His book Night  is one of my favorites to share with stu...

I'm starting to collect pictures of innovative ideas to share with my students for inspiration during Innovation Hour (also known as G...

While in Chicago, we stopped by the Chicago Architecture Foundation and discovered the Chicago Model and the LEGO Design Studio, where f...

Last week my daughter attended a STEM camp at Loyola University in Chicago.  Each day we stopped in the lobby of the Institute of Environme...