Last year I was asked to join the coaching staff of the Varsity Basketball team. When the head coach mentioned my name as his assistant...

This year I have been working on ways to make writing more engaging. When I talk to my students every year their biggest complaint about...

This was the question that my new (excellent) student teacher asked me this morning. I think when I first started teaching I had this...

This week I had the amazing opportunity to fly across the country and learn from some of the best in the field of literacy. I never take...

I have wrestled with this post for a week, probably much longer if I am being really honest. Every year students around the province are...

Today I was working at the school helping in the concession for a tournament. At one point a went to go check out the game that was on...

Last year in March I thought about a project where my students could study what they were interested interested in. We called it...

I was at work incredibly early this morning and sitting at my computer in the silence. On my desk there was a little pile of books, to my...

"One upon a time, there was a boy who was invincible," he whispered, breathing in deeply and filling his lungs with knight superpowers....

A few years ago I attended a conference where I was introduced to a speaker named Dr.Jody Carrington. The sessions discussed emotional...

This time of year the Gilsons, when not teaching, are at basketball. If not working in the concession, I am sitting on the bench or in...

Tomorrow we head back to school. The break has been pretty relaxing. I did less work than I should have, I watched a lot of movies and...

Background Last year I wrote and airing of grievances post in the tradition of Festivus and the hilarious holiday of Seinfeld. It was a...