Meet Michelle—and Her Arc Notebook

Meet Michelle—and Her Arc Notebook

We’ve been teasing you for awhile now with references to the great Arc Notebook, and now it’s high time we go into detail. Loyal blog followers have already met many teachers and their Flexy-Friends, Jocelyn and her binder, and Keith and his clipboard. But so far,...
Systems Tweaking: Returning Graded Work

Systems Tweaking: Returning Graded Work

I like to remind people that it may be hard to get HOURS back in your day, but it is much easier to get back minutes—both yours and your students’. Tess H., a middle school teacher in Philadelphia, recently shared how her systems for returning student work have...
Yes or No? iPads at Teacher Interviews?

Yes or No? iPads at Teacher Interviews?

  Credit: Brian Taylor for The Chronicle It’s teacher-hiring season all over the country! As a former interviewer and hirer of teachers, principals, deans, operations directors and more, I’m always interested in how organizations and candidates prepare for...
Meet Nilda – And Her “Teaching Encyclopedia!”

Meet Nilda – And Her “Teaching Encyclopedia!”

Maybe it’s the fact that I’m having this baby in five weeks. . . or maybe it’s the fact that I’m trying to get my act together to write a “booklet” titled The Together Leader. . . or maybe it’s just my perpetual dream of one-day reorganizing my entire hard drive with...
Rockin’ the Together Teacher Lanyards

Rockin’ the Together Teacher Lanyards

Thanks so much, friends, for your awesome entries in our December contest for Together Teacher Lanyards. Our lucky lanyard winners are. . . Kaylan, keeping things classy with her A5 Filofax Cuban Zip! Jessica L., juggler extraordinaire: “I clip a pen to my lanyard,...