Donate Now Because it was only the first week of school, my students are not quite used to our school procedures yet. During recess one day, two girls, K and Y, had wandered all the way down the hallway to my classroom. Since they aren’t supposed to do this, I was ushering them back down…

Donate Now 26 students + 99 degrees + no air conditioning = 1 very, very exhausted Ms. Bennett. Some more interesting numbers from my first day of my second year of teaching: Number of desks: 23 (note the disparity between that and the number of students) Number of blisters: 4 Times I almost fell: 2…

It is time for that moment that every teacher and administrator since NCLB was instated either looks forward to or dreads: the STAR (State Testing and Accountability Report) release. On Tuesday, I was at school working on a project for my principal. I knew that the scores had been released to principals already, since the…

We are 2 weeks out from the start of school. I’ve been making posters, planning, and thinking about how I want to change my room layout for this year. In addition, Jess and I have spent time meeting with new 2008 corps members to talk about our experiences and unit planning, management, and whatever else…