Donate Now So today was a hard, sad day.  One of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing, a fellow teacher at my school, passed away today on her way to school.  The students are being told tomorrow, but today was brutal.  I know its tough, but she literally was (to use…

Donate Now So today, I gave a test on North American Geography.  Of my 30 or so students, I had 95% of them get As or A+s!  That includes my entire homeroom class, who all made the 100 club on this test.  I told them that I would buy them a pizza lunch if they…

So, its been a few weeks at this point, and I’m starting to feel like I have some control over my classroom.  Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly times when students say or do things that are shocking or disrespectful, but my data shows that they are learning.  Thus far, we’ve progressed from not…