I love the idea of Escape Rooms-the problem is I can never find examples of ones that would work for my beginning readers. So I made some. ...

Patterns is a depth and complexity concept as well as one of the universal themes. If you are not familiar with universal themes-they are a...

I am going to do a series for all the concepts of Depth and Complexity and how I use them in early primary grades. I am going to start with...

Differentiation, in my opinion, is the hardest part of our job as teachers. Especially in the early grades, we have students that come to u...

Saw a tweet the other day asking if you could back to your 1st year self and give them advice-what would you say? That really made me think...

There is a lot of controversy when it comes to whether or not creativity can be taught. I believe that you can definitely help students dis...

As we come up on our last few days of school I thought I would share what it was like for me this year. I teach 1st Grade. As I assessed my...