When Students’ Attention Wanders, Switch It Up
By Stephanie Farley So this always happens in February: emboldened by the success of previous lessons or routines, I fall into the habit of keeping that routine in place. Structure!…
Sweet Funny Things Our Students Give Us
By Stephanie Farley Right before winter break, I was chatting with a few new teachers who were both surprised and delighted by the gifts their students gave them. Neither realized…
Blur the Lines Between Fiction + NonFiction
By Stephanie Farley I’ve come to realize that I’m a hybrid kind of person, by which I mean I enjoy the blurring of traditional lines between categories. For example, my…
Three Good Things to Start the Year
By Stephanie Farley The first six weeks of school are like starting a 1000 piece puzzle: figuring out each student’s interests, talents, and proclivities is like identifying the edge pieces,…
Positive Mental Time Travel for Students
By Stephanie Farley A lifelong sci-fi and fantasy fan, when I see the words “time travel,” I’m in. Fueled by classic time travel yarns like H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine…