Sep 30, 2026
As a fairly constant reader for the last few decades, I sometimes forget how challenging reading can be. But then I get into, for example, a dense thirty page research write-up about the study of how different factors affect relationships between kindergarten teachers and kindergarten moms in Finland, and I remember.
Sep 23, 2026
It’s easy to think of hexagonal thinking as a one-and-done. But it’s not. It’s a strategy you can tailor to a thousand different situations. Andi Jackson, veteran teacher, creative thinker, and hexagonal thinking launcher-extraordinaire, is here today to spotlight the possibilities. She’s taken hexagonal...
Sep 16, 2026
We've all had the experience of planning a detailed activity meant to take thirty or forty minutes, and then watching a student close their book or notebook after five.
It's confusing. It feels obvious that they couldn't have done a good job, and yet it's often not the best use of teacher time to litigate this...
Sep 9, 2026
I've been the first one to school a lot lately, and I'm spending a lot of quiet moments in my classroom, thinking about what's working well, what I can tweak, and how I can best use the spaces I've set up. Rounding the bend into week three feels very different than the summer what-if energy, so I'm in a position now to...
Sep 2, 2026
"What's this?" I was crouched alongside a student on the first day of school as she filled out her reading profile. She pointed her pink highlighter at the section of genres, unsure how to proceed.
I wanted to know if she liked scifi or romance, dystopia or suspense or YA.
She wanted to know what they were, and she...