Classroom Management and PBL Blog for Grades 6-12 Teachers
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The Academic Integrity Email: What to Write, and What to Leave Out
An academic integrity email is a record, not a conversation — and a parent may have the right to read it. Three emails worded out for grades 6–12: the one to the student, the one to the family, and the one to an administrator, plus the five sentences that cause most of the trouble.
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Teacher Reflection Examples That Change the Next Lesson
Seven teacher reflection examples for grades 6–12, each written twice: the version that records a feeling and the version that changes the next lesson. Includes the four questions that make a reflection usable and an honest read of what the research on reflection and coaching supports.
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Classroom Lighting: What Happens When You Turn the Overheads Off
Why my room runs on floor lamps, what the research on classroom lighting actually supports, how to check you have not just made the room too dark — and what happens to a class when the overheads come back on.
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Why Standards-Based Grading Doesn’t Work: The Objections, Taken Seriously
Standards-based grading fails more often than advocates admit, and rarely for the reason critics give. What nearly 1,000 teachers said, what secondary students objected to, which criticisms hold up, and the five conditions under which the answer is not yet.
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From Books to Screens: How to Make Digital Reading Work for Every Student
Digital reading strategies for students, grounded in what the research actually found: how Lexile bands work, how to differentiate one text three ways, which free tools are genuinely free, and a 20-minute routine that makes screen reading hold.
