Make a Checklist (Again): Field Trips

After our recent post on checklists and our way-back-when post on Field Trips, we finally got our hands on their ultimate love child: Stacie’s Field Trip Checklist. Field trips have a tendency to sneak up on us, but they are (for the most part) entirely predictable....

Teacher Togetherness, Interview Style

Whether you’re straight out of college or graduate school, or shifting to a different district, it’s that time of year again: interview time. A recent conversation with Alexa M., a soon-to-be-principal in Denver, got me thinking about how to demonstrate Togetherness...
Teachers—I Appreciate You! Book Giveaway Contest!

Teachers—I Appreciate You! Book Giveaway Contest!

Happppppy Teacher Appreciation Week! I was recently prowling around a few great DC area schools and stumbled upon the rolling cart of goodness below. Hmmmm. . . I wondered, what could be inside?!? Stacie K., the principal, explained it was for Teacher Appreciation...