Finding Life's Balance
Sometimes we are asked to read a book that isn’t on our radar of interests. There is no option but to find a way to plow through the first few pages. It is my experience, that sometimes this is the
Let’s just say Mary Roach has done it again. I really enjoy reading her investigative non-fiction. I first read ‘Stiff’ and enjoyed learning about what happens to the body after death. Now, in ‘Packing for Mars’ (a deceptive title) she
This was a super quick reading, ‘Rise to the Challenge’ by Jeff C. Marshall is just over 100 pages (but really fewer as the chapter end and starts take 3 pages each). At first, as I began reading this book
Let me begin by saying that this is a book I bought without giving too much thought to the content. As a new mom, I read the title and thought this might give me some helpful tips to raise a
This is the third book is a series of books for me that have created a real sense of what my classroom could look like. How I could integrate real change to help my students have more rewarding learning opportunities.
Having requested to be part of a teacher ‘book club’ this was the first book chosen for this past school year – Grading for Equity (What it is, Why it Matters, and How it can Transform Schools and Classrooms) by
Inspired to read this book by a conversation by ELASCD and a discussion they were having about curriculum and instruction, I searched for work by the author H. Lynn Erickson (referred to, but not the speaker). To say I was
I have literally and physically just closed the hard cover of the book as I read the last pages of ‘An Elegant Defense’ by Matt Richtel. My mind is still trying to process all that I have read, all that
With a little extra time on my hands, I thought I would finish some of the books I started. Okay, I joke. I really don’t have extra time. But I have no pressing reading deadline to meet due to another
If ever there was a parenting handbook, this might be it. I confess I bought this book without reading much but the title. I also confess I bought this book hoping it would give me some insight into how my