This week I can’t seem to escape death. There are dead mice in my classroom, dead penguins on YouTube, and a serial killer is caught in Northern California. It’s all happening!

This week has an unexpected running theme in which I've just become an elderly person who has bald spots and goes to bed at 8pm.

While I spent this last week relaxing, it seems I had some things to say about smog tests, park parents, wrangling toddlers, the Florida State Department of Education, and the news in general.

I'm finally on Spring Break! I update you on my class's recent tattling problems and other interpersonal problems they've been having, but I also share how I've decided to tackle this with cute characters and a bunch of read-alouds.

This week’s This Week at School segment is temporarily replaced with a This Week at Kaiser Permanente as I continue to not be well and battle to get sub plans emailed in the dead of night.

This week I talk about the easy peasy trick I used to engage my students while informally assessing them, and they had no idea and got Skittles at the end- it’s a win-win-win!

This week I break down the interview Betsy Devos gave to 60 Minutes and the many, many problems it highlighted

This week I talk finishing up progress reports, my never-ending battle with Tahoe, trying to decode progress report comments from last year’s teacher, and more from my week at school.

Hey y’all! I’m back from mid-winter break and my latest round of anxiety/depression with a brand new pod to breakdown all the feelings I’ve been feeling since Valentine’s Day.

My whole world this week at school culminated in a single question: "Should I give my class the cupcakes?"