Inside the Trenches

Happy almost 2023! So, for those of you who have followed me for a while, you may remember for many years I did challenges ( 19 for '19 ...

Over the past dozen years, I have had the opportunity to travel across the country and do something that I never thought in my wildest dream...

Back in about 2016, "giant" games were all the rage in classrooms. Giant Jenga, Giant Kerplunk, Giant Checkers, and so on. Traditi...

There is no silver bullet for how to be an effective principal. If you ask 100 principals what is their strategy in running a school, you...

Over the course of my first decade or so in education, I admittedly had little knowledge on what was happening with the little friends down ...

In July 2018, I wrote a blog that featured the House system that I implemented at my previous school. In the original blog, you can find ou...

If you don't laugh, you'll cry. Let's have a few laughs then educator friends. I had some time today and was inspired to write a...